Word: shaw
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...urban dystopia provided the perfect setting. A raft of films - Serpico, Death Wish, Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver - navigated that stinky Styx with the expertise of a champion white-water rafter. A lesser but still pertinent entry was The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, which starred Robert Shaw as the criminal mastermind and Walter Matthau as the transit detective trying to talk him out of it. Among its many attractions, this was an action movie where the tension is conveyed mainly in phone calls betwen the killer...
...Washington's constricted calm is a smart contrast to the manic Travolta, who's channeling his strutting killer from Face/Off (an annoying switch from Shaw's steely British mercenary). Tony Scott, who did Top Gun and the earlier Washington movies Crimson Tide, Déjà Vu and Man on Fire, directs with his trademark gusto and a surfeit of many circling camera movements. A congestion of cars, arranged as carefully as clusters of Rockettes, isn't traffic; it's just the backdrop for a spectacular crash...
...have, like, seen this much ice and thought, Oh, my gosh, we were going to crash.' REBECCA SHAW, co-pilot of a plane that crashed near Buffalo, N.Y., in February, remarking on the wintry conditions in a cockpit recording before the fatal plunge...
...people. We didn’t have any errors and they didn’t have any errors. They got the key hits when they needed them.”“I thought we came out really relaxed and really loose,” freshman Whitney Shaw added. “We came out on pace with BU. It was a very complete and well-played game and it was overall a great effort.”Freshman Rachel Brown started and finished on the mound for the Crimson. While the rookie allowed three runs on six hits...
...Statistically, the team’s five best hitters and five best pitchers will return to Cambridge next season. An extra year of experience can only be beneficial for Brown and Shaw, and the Crimson’s strong junior class will provide a wealth of veteran leadership...