Word: stinger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest, and critically most successful, picture is In the Heat of the Night, which presents Rod Stinger as a lonely Southern sheriff and Sidney Poitier as a homicide expert from up North. At the movie's start, Poi tier is passing through a small Mississippi town when Stinger's deputy mistakenly charges him with murder. Poi tier dramatically reveals his identity as a police officer (to a mixture of catcalls and enthusiastic screams from the audience). and eventually shows Steiger how to solve a murder...
...screen, and several critical links to the murder's solution are left unexplained. Apparently realizing this, Jewison has defended the picture's weakness as a melodrama by saying, in effect, that it isn't one. He suggests that the real subject matter is the relationship between Poi tier and Stinger, and that the loose construction of the mystery throws proper emphasis onto that relationship. As long as this argument wasn't devised after the picture's completion, one can assume that Jewison and screen writer Skirling Silliphant were trying to use the elements of a mystery much as Antonioni...
...Jackson hotels and restaurants, a stinger or a Scotch on the rocks was served with a straw. Dry-martini buffs gagged on concoctions as wet-and sometimes as muddy-as Old Man River. The patron who asked for a screwdriver was more apt to get a tool than a tipple. Thus, with more complaint than celebration, Prohibition receded from the last officially dry state in the Union. Since Mississippi's ban on liquor was dropped on July 1, counties with two-thirds of the state's population have voted...
...five-year-old St. Bernard. The funds may come in handy for Towser, who picked up some pretty fancy habits from his master. He pads around the mansions wearing a brandy and a créme de menthe keg (in case anyone wants to stir up a stinger), and, explained Clegg, "he does love pâté de foie gras and caviar. He drools terribly if you serve either...
...Waterville, Colby unsheathed its stinger during the second period, in an exchange which started 0-0 and ended up 4-3. Colby struck back in the third period, getting past stalwart Bill Fitzsimmons twice in nine essays. Harvard bombarded its foe with 17 futile shots. The ten-minute overtime locked up the deadlock, although Harvard again got off more goalward pucks, five shots to the Snowmen's three...