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...slowly paralyzing American society." Observes Houston Police Chief B.K. Johnson: "We have allowed ourselves to degenerate to the point where we're living like animals. We live behind burglar bars and throw a collection of door locks at night and set an alarm and lay down with a loaded shotgun beside the bed and then try to get some rest. It's ridiculous." The chief knows whereof he speaks; he keeps several loaded guns in his bedroom...
...spine, heart-in-your-throat, you-can't-watch-but-you-daren't-leave goods. Cronenberg delivers. When the body of one of his characters turns on its owner, it does so with a sanguinary vengeance. In Scanners, the Force flings men against walls, drives them to shotgun suicide, creeps inside their muscles and works its way out. This last special effect is a gloss of the sequence in Altered States in which William Hurt's face and arms assumed grotesque simian form (Makeup Wizard Dick Smith worked on both films): but Cronenberg goes beyond Altered States...
Banks' release ended an ordeal that began on a pleasant fall day when the unemployed truck driver took out his aging single-shot shotgun and went hunting. His dog came across the bodies of a 38-year-old high school band leader and a 19-year-old woman who once had been one of his students. Banks went to the road and stopped a motorist, who in turn summoned police. Five weeks later, Banks was locked up. For the trial, Banks' original lawyer, who later was disbarred for shoddy work in other cases, failed to turn up several...
...been dared to attend the rally by the C.W.P., acted in self-defense after C.W.P. members struck their cars with sticks and brandished guns. David Wayne Matthews, who told the police shortly after the event that he had shot at least three people, testified that he grabbed his shotgun when he saw "niggers" with guns. "One of them looked up and hollered, 'I'm gonna kill you, you son of a bitch, kill the Klan,' and I took my gun up and shot at him." In fact, the prosecution established that the only people on the scene...
After moving the ball to the Bell Boy 7 on three crisp plays, the Levthrops incurred four penalties while trying to complete one down, setting them back a full fifty yards. With second and goal on their own 43, the Winthrop/Leverett offense went into the shotgun, but Lowell defender Jeff Schwaber snagged Slack's pass to end the retreat...