Word: stabs
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...housewife flapping a bed sheet and uses the bright red muleta as if he were flagging down a train. Worst of all, he is so inept with the sword that about the only way he can be sure of killing the bull is to shoot it. He had to stab one bull 16 times this month before it would die, and twice within the past two weeks he has heard the rare warning of a bugle signaling that his allotted time for the kill had nearly expired. So badly did he butcher his opponents at one major fight this year...
...every prosecutor is supposedly so much more interested in justice than convictions that he willingly shares his evidence with the defense. In reality, hardly a D.A. alive is about to do any such thing-which is precisely why the Maryland Court of Appeals has been forced to take a stab at defining exactly how much a D.A. can keep the defense in the dark...
SQUARE IN THE EYE. While too many themes and techniques are crowded within its angle of vision, Eye is alive with a phantasmagoric sense of the present. Playwright Jack Gelber's latest satiric work tickles the ribs to stab the brain...
...Square in the Eye etches a savagely ironic profile of the talkocrats, the people who talk of writing novels and painting pictures, who interminably discuss the problems of home and headline. A theatrical kaleidoscope with film sequences, stills and pop artifacts, Square in the Eye tickles the ribs to stab the brain...
Sounds familiar? Blonde, bullion, gilded body. Of course, the criminal Midas who sent the Triumph in for refinishing is Gert Frobe of Goldfinger. But Director Jean Becker, unwilling to risk all on one reckless stab at success by association, has also equipped Backfire with the Breathless team of Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. This time sparks fly only sporadically between them, partly because Actress Seberg?whose beauty and talent are unevenly matched?misbehaves with the studied seductiveness of a schoolgirl trying out her first pair of heels...