Word: assassin
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...sequence as if you were present: the selection of the uninteresting, solitary boy; the logic of it; the low-whispered plotting; the appointment of the assassin; the blow; the raising of the shirt and the surprise. But then what? What, in fact, were those men thinknig that held them back from murder? Mere pity? Or was it the recognition of Pham's tears as their own, the knowledge that the boy was not weeping to save his own skin, but theirs, that he was weeping for all those who did ever, or will ever, or do now devour their young...
...virtuoso performance. Exploiting the stunning election victory that made him TIME'S Man of the Year for 1980, Ronald Reagan launched a conservative counterrevolution, changing the direction of American government more drastically than any other President in half a century. Not even the bullet from a would-be assassin's gun that pierced his left lung on March 30 could slow his initial momentum...
...Assassination: no other crime so thoroughly wrenches the world to attention. The killer squeezes a trigger (the gunfire always surprising bystanders with its weightless pop! pop!), and civilization itself seems to scramble hysterically before him. For an instant, the assassin's life of brooding impotence is stood on its head: he has at last obliged the powerful to take him into account...
...plead insanity, Hinckley, alone in a Maryland stockade cell, now has only himself to hurt; twice he has attempted suicide. Agca, after a boyhood of rural Turkish poverty, attended two universities and eventually joined a gang of young fascist thugs in Istanbul. In their thrall he became a practiced assassin two years before his descent on Rome. Agca's motive was nominally political ("A protest against imperialism," he claimed) but had only the hermetic coherence of the demented. Said the Italian prosecutor of Agca, who is now serving a life sentence in a provincial prison: "We peered into...
This time Matthau is a career assassin, eradicating Mob stool pigeons with the weary professionalism of a top C.P.A., and Lemmon, a network censor and a jilted husband poised to end his misery in suicide. They meet on their mutual missions, in a hotel room. For Matthau it is loathe at first sight; for Lemmon it is a last grab at camaraderie before lights out. See how they run on the treadmill of French farce, tripping over each other's discomfort, overdosing on the crudest twists of plot...