Word: shotgunned
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...bundle of unchannelled energy expressed in random, hoarsely inexpressive shouts and struts. When not center stage he is erect and twitching against a back wall, his eyes glazed as if his brains were being barbecued. He is no Mahiavelli, but a quick-witted opportunist handed a turkey and a shotgun. Recongnizing this, his frame swells with cookiness. It's gestures become honed, and his voice pierces effortlessly through the fog of general ignorance. He's pure enough at first to earn the epithet "honest": "Beware, my lord, of jealousy," he says firmly, and villain and councilor splendidly maege. When...
...cool dude, but "Richard Pryor is the Man," says Baby Love. "He got power." The violence Baby Love sees on the screen is not much different from what he faces on the street. He was 13 when he first saw a man blown away-with a shotgun. He has faced down a few gunslingers himself. He sometimes carries a .25 automatic. "All my friends got guns," he says. "We go and try and shoot birds in the park." Trees are beaten to death in ghetto parks. Youngsters, too, get killed on summer evenings when there is disco music...
...shotgun approach...
Returning to his mobile home in Austin, the Republican representative was struck in the left arm by three buckshot pellets from a twelve-gauge shotgun, and his car was riddled with dime-sized holes. At various times since then, Martin, 29, has said his arm was raised to protect himself, to yawn and to check the time. Wayne House, then a legislative aide to Martin, took him to a hospital. But even then, House started to wonder: Had Martin staged his own shooting...
...posters. Enraged, Thongyu shouted at Tin. The two men then agreed to settle the matter with a fistfight and departed in clattering bottle trucks for a field near by. On the way, though, Tin pulled his truck alongside Thongyu's and, according to witnesses, blasted him with a shotgun. Thongyu was left dead at his wheel; Tin disappeared...