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...dinner is what is on your mind, and you don't care about game laws, turkeys are dead easy. Just throw some corn on the ground. They will come. You will shoot them. That is what happened a century and a half ago, and turkeys were so unwily that by the end of the 19th century they were within a tick of extinction, with only about 30,000 birds hiding out in swamps and hollows across the continent. The 7,000 birds that now roam New Hampshire are the descendants of 25 individuals trapped in New York's mountains...
Writer/director Walter Hill ("48 Hours") presents Wild Bill Hickok (Jeff Bridges) as a moron with a fetish: he'll shoot anyone who touches his hat. Not that he really requires an excuse to ventilate any and all comers. It is just that this is what the man does when he's not repairing to an opium den and losing himself in bad pipe dreams. Or drinking too much. Or resisting the advances of Calamity Jane (Ellen Barkin). "'Wild Bill' is one of the dankest and most claustrophobic westerns ever made," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "It's a movie that...
...Alma ever bring up the Rabin assassination in conversation, says Michael. "She already knew the world was like that,'' he says. "This is a family that knows. The stories of my mother and grandfather sitting in the house with guns in their hands ready to shoot whoever came up the driveway are true. She grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Little girls were blown up in churches for no reason...
...would choose it for themselves or not. Choi's editorial makes affirmative action out to be a shameful policy for those that are its beneficiaries. He seek to eliminate affirmative action, not by countering discrimination and eliminating the need for it, but by encouraging women and minority groups to shoot themselves in the foot and stigmatize themselves into not seeking gains made with the help of affirmative action...
...walk in and see this little old guy sitting in this chair," says Thomas F. Hass '97, an offensive line recruit. "Then, out of nowhere, this hand would shoot out at you and if you didn't catch it half-way it would just knock you back. Then he rolled your knuckles around for a while...