Word: gunplay
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According to one popular notion, the Mafia gang war in New York City is a quick, convenient and highly effective method of crime control. Mobsters slaying mobsters, the theory holds, makes for fewer mobsters. Even if that cynical hypothesis were morally acceptable, it would break down, because the gunplay between New York's embattled clans, which has claimed 23 known victims in the past 14 months, is being carried on by some singularly inept, trigger-happy hoods...
...defeat led to a good deal of soul-searching and a severe ideological split. What became the smaller official wing of the army, led by Chief of Staff Cathal Goulding, argued that gunplay without political activism would lead to further defeats. This line led to increasing cooperation with Ireland's minuscule Communist Party and an eventual decision to form a "national liberation front." The so-called Provisionals of Sean MacStiofáin insisted on military means first. Although most of the I.R.A. units opted for the Provos, the division between the rival groups was and is bitter. For a time, army...
...usual in Hawks pictures, Wayne remains the stoic straight man, the butt of some good-natured gags, who nevertheless comes through whenever it is time for gunplay. He seems as natural and right in his role as a well-worn saddle, even though he wears a Vietnamese montagnard bracelet and a Western belt buckle engraved with a D while he plays a character named Cord McNally in a film set at the end of the Civil...
...angry confrontation in the town of Sparta. In the Faulknerian courthouse, gun-toting black parents waited impatiently while the school board debated whether or not to open the schools on time. Eventually, the board decided to delay-and the blacks, bitter though they were, decided not to resort to gunplay. What they did do was unburden to Range the extent of their frustration-and hope...
...ghastly gunplay in San Rafael in a curious way pointed up the hazards of the President as film critic. In praising the new John Wayne film Chisum, he seems to have overlooked the fact that in it the good guys prevail over the bad guys only by taking the law into their own hands. That, of course, is what the "revolutionaries" of Marin County were attempting with such bloody results. Vigilantism appeals not only to conservatives; it is no accident that S.D.S. members, too, loved the John Wayne of True Grit, last year's western in which Marshal Cogburn...