Word: bullet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BITE THE BULLET...
...Night Moves (see above) and John Frankenheimer's French Connection II, and it is a fair measure of the depth and variety of his talent that he has not worn out his welcome. But although Hackman is just as creditable and fresh as ever in Bite the Bullet, he is at odds with material that hardly gives him an even break...
...base runners sass the Duke relentlessly, and so does his apoplectic catcher, "Beanie" Maligima (Lou Crincuolo). The manager (Mitchell Jason) tries to psych the Duke back to his earlier form, but to no avail. A home run ball zooms over his head like a tracer bullet and murders him on the spot...
...bugle-stars-and-stripes hoopla, though. This play reportedly addresses the question, "Do people make revolutions or do revolutions make people?" and the plot concerns a cowardly Boston barman who is forced to become a revolutionary because he needs the money and because Sam Adams threatens to put a bullet through his head. The script isn't flawless, but the production is good and offers a new variation on what is already a hackneyed subject. At the Tufts Arena Theater, Medford, Thursday through Saturday...
Died. Sam Giancana, 66, Chicago mobster linked to alleged CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro; of seven bullet wounds in the head and neck; in his Oak Park, Ill., home (see THE NATION...