Word: varmints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heroes of some 200 horse operas during his 32-year movie career; in Burbank, Calif. Though a tenderfoot from the old vaudeville circuit, Gabby became a paradigm of the comical coot who sprayed Bad Guys with tobacco juice and such shattering epithets as "You goldarned son-of-a-prairie varmint!" He made 22 Hopalong Cassidy films with Bill Boyd, rode with Roy Rogers and Gene Autry, and nearly stole the show from John Wayne in the classic Tall in the Saddle (1944). Said Hayes: "Gabby is a lying, bragging old codger, but everybody loves...
Beatty, playing the lead, does a capable job, within the limits of his familiar, insolent, couldn't-care-less manner, of making Barrow the amiable varmint he thought himself to be. Barrow fancied himself something of a latterday Robin Hood, robbing only banks that were foreclosing on poor farmers and eventually turning into a kind of folk hero. But Faye Dunaway's Sunday-social prettiness is at variance with any known information about Bonnie Parker. The other gang members struggle to little avail against a script that gives their characters no discernible shape...
...lethal complex is what the Viet Cong call "the little black rifle"-the light, fast-firing, plastic-stocked M-16 automatic rifle carried by most of the combat troops in South Viet Nam. At 7.6 lbs., the M-16 is scarcely the size of a farm boy's "varmint" rifle; yet it can spray short bursts at the rate of 750 rounds per minute, though reloading time cuts the effective rate to a far lower figure. Its muzzle velocity is so great that within 100 yds.-the range of most Viet Nam fire fights-an M-16 bullet generates...