Word: threatenings
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...first day of filming (in Ireland, with 300 Irish extras as American and British soldiers), and chaos erupts. The film troops, sleeping in tents, are restless, and there is a rumor that Bean will use real bullets in the filming. The Cockney crew members, led by the gaffer, threaten a workers' revolt against Bean-cum-Washington, but they hold together to film the British charge up Bunker Hill--hilariously staged, dummies and all. But they can't hold out, and the turncoat Wes, convinced that "Washington" will be a disaster, finally stops the action with the help of some redcoat...
...kept standing in the lobby in his swimming trunks until a crowd had gathered. Someone called the St. Louis Human Rights Commission; somebody else notified the American Sociological Association (ASA). The local and national press appeared. Then ASA, which had about 1500 members at the hotel for the convention, threatened to pull out and persuaded a national psychologists' convention to threaten cancellation if hotel management did not immediately open the pool to all guests. As a result, the pool was opened, and the sociologist from Syracuse University reluctantly--he had lost his desire to swim during the fracas--dogpaddled...
Sometimes their allies are teenage gang lords who come on like Geronimo crossed with the Blues Brothers; sometimes their toughest adversaries are officers whose tensions threaten to explode in a one-man apocalypse. The show treats those on both sides of the law with respect for their crotchets and obsessions...
...oral argument, Cucinotta is in the kitchen of his suburban home, stirring spaghetti sauce and expounding on the U.S.'s adversary system of justice. "People like me are the champions of liberty," he says. "Think if I lose. Does it mean that the Government can willy-nilly threaten harsher sanctions if a defendant doesn't drop the attorney of her choice? Think of the Spanish Inquisition! Or the Tower of London! Not everybody in there was guilty. Or the Willingboro Ten!" His wife Santa gently corrects him: "It's the Wilmington...
...expected a quarrel over teachers' salaries would be an issue that would provoke Cabinet ministers to threaten to quit if they did not get their way. But that is precisely what happened...