Word: terrorizer
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...Trailers: One of the best sources for Lewis's films on VHS/DVD is Movies Unlimited (moviesunlimited.com). Although some titles mentioned above were never issued on video, and "Gun Crazy" is currently unavailable, "The Big Combo," "Terror in a Texas Town," and a number of other Lewis titles are in plentiful supply. For information on Lewis's career, the best places to go are Peter Bogdanovich's "Who the Devil Made It" and Francis M. Nevins Jr's "Joseph H. Lewis: Overview, Interview, and Filmography...
...Before his retirement in 1958, Lewis returned to making westerns. His last film, "Terror in a Texas Town," is a truly odd affair that, like "Gun Crazy" unfolds with dream-logic. The unforgettable opening, for instance, finds Sterling Hayden striding valiantly toward a classically styled showdown - toting a harpoon on his shoulder. An unseen gunfighter mocks him for his choice of weapon, and the movie proceeds, in one long flashback, to explain how Hayden got into this strange predicament. "Terror" is not Lewis's finest western, but it does stand as a fitting conclusion to his body of work...
...Washington a discreet but active substratum of the government has developed. It includes the FBI's Counter-Terrorism Division, the interagency Counterterrorism Center at the CIA and the Counterterrorism Security Group at the White House. In aggregate, this is the nation's backbone in the fight to combat terrorists. Call them the Terror Hunters...
...ways a perfect example of the challenges the U.S. faces. It appears to have been well planned by a cell with international logistical support and sophisticated bombmaking expertise, according to U.S. officials working on the case. The cell-like structure, in which groups are run as tiny bubbles of terror instead of as part of a central hierarchy, makes intelligence work tricky. It also tends to make a group more divorced from reality, enabling it to nurture suicide bombers more easily. And it does wonders for security: cells are often composed of people who have known one another since childhood...
...just how far can American spies go as they try to prevent terror? The CIA has human-rights guidelines for dealing with bad guys and says they don't impede its mission: it calculates risk against reward for getting involved. Yet critics say the CIA is still too shy about trying to infiltrate terrorist groups for fear the politicians won't back its agents if they get they get their hands dirty. "We have seen a risk-averse environment [at the CIA] because of that," says a top intelligence-community source. "Case officers [wonder], Will the government be there when...