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...only solo number, a wonderfully obscure bit of nonsensical babbling called "Rubber Biscuit" which is, believe it or not, quite faithful to the original version. Murphy takes the spotlight in the classic 12-bar "Shot Gun Blues," delivering some sizzling runs as Belushi moans, "I'm gonna take a shotgun, baby, disconnect my brain...

Author: By Marc E. Raven, | Title: The Blues for Sure | 1/4/1979 | See Source »

...away. When the FBI arrived because of complaints from the Wilson forces, the payoff center was moved to a dead-end street. There, under a towering pine (called, yes, the money tree), some $10,000 in cash was disbursed by two men while a third stood guard with a shotgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Shaking the Money Tree | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...robbers, armed with a shotgun, a pistol, and three revolvers, beat a guard and bound him and the nine other workers at the Lufthansa Airlines cargo area. One worker was forced to reveal the combination to a safe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thieves Net $5 Million in Heist From JFK Airport Cargo Area | 12/12/1978 | See Source »

...shotgun marriage of Marxist philosophy and Christian commitment could only be seriously entertained in America, and it reflects an instinctive, shrewd understanding of the American mind on Jones's part. The religious impulse in America is strong, much stronger, as De Toqueville points out, than in Europe, where religion is allied with politics and the social convention. Here, it suppresses godless ideologies. Yet another side of American nature is pragmatic and utilitarian, desiring rational justification for any act. Jones's philosophy embodied this conflict and, in a sense, mastered it. He could invest himself with religious charisma by using...

Author: By Christopher Agee, | Title: The Wisdom That Is Woe... ...the Woe That Is Madness | 12/7/1978 | See Source »

...Francisco Chronicle was hit in the left shoulder. He crawled behind a plane wheel. NBC Cameraman Bob Brown stayed on his feet, filming the approaching riflemen. "He was incredibly tenacious," Javers reported. "Then I saw him go down. And I saw one of the attackers stick a shotgun right into his face?inches away, if that. Bob's brain was blown out of his head. It splattered on the NBC minicam. I'll never forget that sight as long as I live. I ran, and then I dived head first into the bush and scrambled as far into the swamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightmare in Jonestown | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

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