Sentences with phrase «murdered by a truck»

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But, given that crossing deserts brings a slow, miserable death to a number of these immigrants (and others will suffocate in the back of cargo trucks or be murdered by smugglers), a few more feet to climb is probably going to deter only a small number of potential immigrants.

Working from a brilliant screenplay by Steven Zaillian, Fincher's take on the story focuses more on what I've come to understand is really a classic locked room mystery in the Agatha Christie mode — in the case of the murder / disappearance of Harriet Vanger, the locked room is an island whose sole entry point is blocked by an overturned tanker truck — that is concealed within a study of unlimited misogyny and sidetracked into the discovery of a serial killer.

But when three young, white ne'er - do - wells murdered James Byrd Jr., a black man in Jasper, Texas, by dragging him for three miles behind their truck, the shock waves rolled around the world.

His politically resonant 14 - minute video installation «Guitar Drag» (2000)-- part of the exhibition «Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950,» on view through May 26 — depicts a loudly amplified electric guitar being violently dragged along a Texas country road by a pickup truck, alluding to the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr..