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...District. John Hall and his daughter Susan were camping in the open. It was 11 at night when the hyenas came, screaming and laughing, their eyes flashing in the moonlight. There were six or seven hyenas in the pack, and even after Hall opened up on them with his shotgun, they kept coming at him. Hall and his daughter raced for their vehicle, which was open at the sides, and still the hyenas came on, working as a pack, snapping hungrily. Hall plunged the vehicle at them repeatedly and finally chased them off into the desert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...wounded Cape buffalo once chased Susan and John Hall into the house. One day a large male baboon pursued Thelma Hall down the veranda and into the house. The baboon came inside after her. She remembers its awful yellow fangs. John Hall came after the baboon with his shotgun, but the gun jammed. Hall jabbed with the gun butt, and the baboon started chewing it up. Finally, Hall whacked the baboon on the head with the gun butt, and it ran under a bed, where Hall finally shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

Nearby, crowds are gathering by the entrance of the Christmas carnival, where shotgun-toting security guards are passing out promotional leaflets. Cigarette vendors mill through the crowd, peddling packs or individual cigarettes. A cabdriver offers his services, but is just as happy to talk. He likes Aquino, he says, but he is not sure about her proposed constitution. He supposes he will vote the way everyone else does...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: After the Revolution | 1/16/1987 | See Source »

...play of the drive--whick exhibited more of Yale's straight-ahead blasting through the Crimson line--was a Troy Jenkins 10-yard first down run on an inside handoff with Yale in a shotgun formation...

Author: By Geoffrey Simon, | Title: Gridders Gallivant Past Yale, 24-17 | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...until comedy becomes love story becomes tragedy becomes megafarce. After an hour or so, Menage explodes from the exhaustion of possibilities, and the cast is left to pick up the pieces. They do so, handsomely, while the sardonic writer-director surveys the carnage with what he calls "my big shotgun smile." You can see bits of flesh in his teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Weird Trios and Fun Couples | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

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