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Perhaps best known until now for the score of Shaft, Isaac Hayes here follows Three Tough Guys with another lame shot at establishing some kind of on-camera identity for himself. The vehicle he has chosen is a numskull cops-and-robbers piece about a skip tracer (someone who hunts down bail jumpers). Hayes forsakes his rock-performing wardrobe of bare chest wrapped in chains to slop around Los Angeles in a variety of Levi outfits, glowering, guzzling cans of Coors and ferreting out various criminal types. He is called Truck because his methods usually carry a certain violent impact...
...JAMES TRACER 256 pages. Arthur Fields...
...blast through the walls, but the sniper shots kept coming. Finally, eleven hours after the violence had begun, one lone sniper darted under the glare of a helicopter spotlight, ran about 30 ft. in a zigzag pattern across the rooftop, and fell dead in a hail of police tracer bullets, his body riddled with more than 100 slugs...
...told the Oakland computer to print out a program for plotting complex aerospace data in graph form. His company presumably planned to market the program, which was valued at $12,000 or more, to the Oakland firm's own customers. He was caught through a telephone company tracer and received a suspended sentence...
...core, the American musical celebrates collective energy. The force that Fosse unleashes in Pippin is the spirit that flung railroads across a continent and raised skyscrapers to rake the heavens. At least that is the way you feel as you watch his dancers arc across the stage like tracer bullets. ∎T.E.Kalem