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...struggles in the currents of circumstance. We too feel seduced when Bunuel's devious camera involves our gaze in the seemingly innocuous--a butterfly on a window--then pulls back to show us our complicity in senseless violence--as the senile grandfather blasts it with a shotgun we were unwittingly sighting over...
...Metropolitan Opera House (1883-1966) drew 3,900 guests and three generations of conductors to reminisce through hits and bits from 25 operas. The hello to the new house had actually started with a bang a few days earlier. KER-BLAM! went the sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun fired for a sound test. "O say! can you see . . ." roared the 3,200 New York City schoolchildren in the Met's new, $45,700,000 house in Manhattan's Lincoln Center. General Manager Rudolf Bing, 64, cocked an expert ear at all the noise and reported...
...care about? Staying healthy. Working good. Eating and drinking with his friends. Enjoying himself in bed. I haven't any of them. Do you understand, goddamn it? None of them!" And so, less than a month later, Papa Hemingway, 61, took his life with his favorite shotgun-the same gun he had used in giving so many creatures what he called the gift of death...
...freedom. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court moved to sharpen the focus - and the teeth - of those 19th century laws in decisions that dealt with two of the South's most wanton racist slayings: the June 1964 murder of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Miss., and the shotgun killing along a Georgia highway three weeks later of Lemuel Penn, a Washington Negro educator. In both cases, the court reversed rulings by Southern federal-court judges and opened the way for further Justice Department prosecutions...
Knights & Shotguns. Armed and encouraged by the court's rulings, the Justice Department could conceivably move to prosecute under federal law other rights murder cases, such as the sidewalk slaying of the Rev. James Reeb in Selma, the Birmingham church bombing in which four Negro girls died and the killing of Seminarian Jonathan Daniels in Hayneville, Ala. Indeed, FBI agents last week wound up an intense 76-day investigation in Mississippi with the arrest of 14 White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who were indicted under Section 241 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act in connection with...