Word: shooting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...initial setting for the film is the war zone of Belfast in 1974. English troops parole the streets with rifles on their hips; when a youth, stealing scrap metal from a roof, waves a stick around, these troops pronounce him a "sniper" and shoot at him. The young man flees, and is chased through the small alleys and homes of Belfast; meanwhile, its inhabitants beat the walls and pavement with trash can lids to raise an alarm. Soon a riot has been provoked, and English tanks and soldiers careen through the streets. The young man who started this uproar...
Spielberg's decision to shoot the film in black and white serves him well. Besides lending the movie the feel of a documentary, the black and white serves the film thematically in the play of light and shadows. Black and white also gives an unnerving sharpness and clarity to whatever is portrayed. It forces the viewer to focus on what is on the screen; there is no color to distract the viewer or to provide an escape from the intensity and impact of the material...
Guns and attitudes; like so many American cities, Milwaukee is aching from the frequent and often fatal combination of the two. "It used to be your money or your life," says Sheriff Richard Artison. "Now they'll shoot you anyway." Since 1980 the city's homicide rate has doubled and now stands at more than 150 so far this year, spurred by a deadly convergence of gangs, drugs and ever more sophisticated weaponry. Countywide, juvenile arrests for homicides climbed from six in 1983 to 82 last year. Admissions at Children's Hospital for gunshot wounds rose from...
...armed." Noting that Wisconsin has nearly 1 million licensed hunters, Fendry doesn't give the petition a chance. Nor does alderman Fredrick Gordon, who represents some of the most dangerous streets in the city. "We're not being victimized by people from the N.R.A. who use weapons to shoot deer. We're being victimized by criminals...
Each team is forced to have the kid who can't shoot to fill a uniform. It's not that these players are bad, but they don't belong in the National Basketball Association. The league has decided to expand for obvious financial reasons. Basketball has become the most popular sport in the world, so the NBA Bigwigs, thinking like businessmen, thought they should profit from the popularity. Expand, get more cities involved. More markets, larger clientele, and bigger profits...