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...last, the misanthropic Hombre rises to perform the predictably noble act that redeems him. In the final gunplay, he knocks off Boone and a Mexican henchman who confides to Balsam before expiring: "I would like to know hees name . . ." Hees name is mud, and so is hees scenarist...
...Malarky. NBC's I Spy also succeeds, in part because it turns its back on the Fleming flammery, makes a hip thriller out of two CIA types touring the world as a tennis bum (Robert Culp) and his Oxford-educated Negro trainer (Bill Cosby). For all its stereotyped gunplay, the production has a style to which TV audiences should hope to become accustomed: lavish locations (Hong Kong in color for the first eight episodes), virtually choreographed direction, a swinging score, and a cant-and-cliché-free script, for which Culp doubled as author...
...appeared waving burp guns. They lined the men up against a wall as if to execute them, then fired their automatic weapons harmlessly into the air. "Those brats just seemed to delight in terrorizing us," said one U.S. housewife. Only the arrival of a rebel army colonel stopped the gunplay and permitted the removal of the refugees to the port of Haina, twelve miles away. There the U.S. Navy was already waiting to load 1,172 of them aboard transports. Some 1,000 other Americans elected to stay behind, hoping the disorder would soon be ended...
...Senator Silvestre Péricles de Góes Monteiro, who . . . who . . . who has threatened to kill me today." "Swine," roared Góes Monteiro, 67, charging down the aisle. Mello drew his Smith & Wesson .38, ducked behind a seat-and fired twice. An old hand at political gunplay, Góes Monteiro whipped out his own .38, but another Senator jumped him before he could fire. When the bedlam subsided, a third Senator, José Kairala, 48, was lying in a pool of blood. Apparently the second shot from Mello's pistol had ripped into his abdomen. Doctors...
Except for his swearing-in, Mello made it a point to stay away from the Senate-until last week. Even then, he never made his maiden speech. After the gunplay, Mello faced a charge of homicide; Góes Monteiro was held for attempted assault with intent to kill. And the Senate passed a rule: from now on, all Senators will check their weapons at the door...