Word: snipering
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Through repetition the scene has become a classic: the sniper perched on a seemingly inaccessible rooftop, bodies littering the pavement below, a crowd of gawkers milling just out of range as the police wheel up their elite troops and latest weaponry to try to pry the lunatic from his perch...
...microfilm or rare jewels) that kicks off the action in a suspense film. Less renowned, but just as important, is "the clock." This is movie shorthand for the deadline toward which villains push their mean plans and against which the virtuous struggle mightily. Two-Minute Warning, which concerns a sniper (Warren Miller) in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, has more clocks than a Swiss trade show...
...Minute Warning is a movie full of clocks, not people. It is hardly enough that the sniper has hidden himself in an inaccessible perch above the stadium Scoreboard. From there, armed with his Remington 742, he can draw a fine bead through his telescopic sight on any of the 92,000 assembled fans, among whom are the mayor of L.A., the Governor of California, the President of the U.S. (who is en route) and Merv Griffin (who opens the football game by delivering the national anthem as if it were a carton of half-and-half). Not even all this...
...stop treating Mistress Gena Rowlands mean and marry her? Will Gambler Jack Klugman, way in the hole and threatened with immediate extinction unless his debts are settled, beat the point spread? Most of all, will Good Cop Charlton Heston and Stadium Manager Martin Balsam be able to neutralize the sniper without having to turn to the dire methods of Tough Cop John Cassavetes and his blood-hungry SWAT team...
Palestinian youths fought on for several hours in hand-to-hand combat, but by now thousands of refugees were streaming out of the camp through a hail of sniper fire and heading toward West Beirut. There many waited at a sporting center for relocation in empty Beirut apartments and villages in southern Lebanon. Mostly they were the very old, the very young or women. "We ran out of water, out of food, out of everything," said one elderly man, Abdullah Youssif Joumah, as he wiped away tears with his white kaffiyeh. Said another: "The boys who were fighting...