Word: shooting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...favored in local feasts. Gun owners often hire tribesmen as shooters because of their knowledge of the forest. One evening last spring, Raju, the landlord and two other poachers hid near a water hole. At dusk a tiger approached within a few yards. Raju claims he was reluctant to shoot it, but the landlord insisted. He promised, but never delivered, payment of 110 lbs. of millet -- worth...
...game shoot-arounds are over and Larry and Magic move towards each other for a word before the game...
...When you get into a sport like this, when you spend to much time doing it at practice, it's a bug--if you lay off it for two days, you're dying to go back on the ice and shoot a puck. And if I go to a pro game at night, it drives me crazy--I want to go straight to the rink that night...
...preparation for each film is a challenge of heroic proportions and minute detail. While making My Left Foot, he stayed in his wheelchair even when not on camera and taught himself to paint with his foot. For The Last of the Mohicans he learned how to skin animals and shoot muskets. In New York for The Age of Innocence, he checked into his Victorian-style hotel as Newland Archer and wandered the city dressed in 1870 clothes. For In the Name of the Father, he lost a substantial amount of weight. In preparation for the scene where his character...
Thankfully, we get some diversion from this seemingly endless back-and-forth; however, it takes the form of a completely confusing kidnapping crisis, culminating in a fairly dramatic scene in which Doug finally gets to shoot a gun. Although this part of the plot has more action than the beginning of the film, it is so unbelievable and so hard to follow that the screenwriter would have done better to stick to the entertaining secret-service-meets-old-lady premise of this one-gag movie...