Word: snipered
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...night the floodlights shine from rural houses while watchmen peer through barred windows for a glimpse of intruders. During the day, gun-bearing farmers vary the routine of their chores so that no sniper can plan an ambush. Though only twelve civilians have been killed so far, the six-month-old black insurgency in northeastern Rhodesia has already raised serious doubts about the future of Ian Smith's white supremacist government...
...talent enough to make anyone regret what he does not do with it. Targets (1968), like most first films, was rough and not fully assimilated, but for all its crudity it had a vigor and invention that Bogdanovich has not approached since. Its long climactic scene, involving a schizophrenic sniper picking off the patrons of a drive-in theater, was made with the kind of virtuosity that promised an audacious new director. With each subsequent film, the memory of Targets-as well as its promise-grows dimmer...
...humor that makes The Women such a savory pleasure is as much of a rarity as the play. Mrs. Luce's lines border on the aphoristic, but they lack the pith and elegance of fine aphorisms. Her true forte is the sniper fire of sarcasm in which one character fells another in midstep or midsentence. Many of these lines fall to the busybody superbitch played by Alexis Smith, and she is a past mistress of the lethal riposte...
Almost forgotten in the turmoil was the referendum in Northern Ireland, which for once seemed almost tranquil in comparison with London. Ulster managed to get through its first polling day in seven years with only eleven explosions, two people injured, and one soldier killed by a sniper...
...magnum slug. The attacker fled on foot, and shortly thereafter a car was stolen five blocks from the grocery store, only to turn up in the motor lodge's garage. Whoever else had been involved with Essex-one cop insisted that he saw a black woman sniper-race clearly played a large role in the killings. At about the same time Bemish was shot, a black chambermaid almost bumped into the sniper on the pool deck. "Don't worry," he reassured her. "We're not going to shoot any blacks, just whites. The revolution's here...