Word: assassination
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...BLIND ASSASSIN Margaret Atwood's novel is part family saga, part social history, part suspense tale and altogether captivating. As its elderly narrator, Iris Chase, looks back on her life--and some mysterious deaths--she evokes not only a tangled past but a luminous fictional realm...
...flinched and wheeled on me with the same look in his eye that he had when the lightbulb exploded. He thought for an instant that I was his assassin, his James Earl Ray. A natural reflex for someone who was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel that day in Memphis...
...BLIND ASSASSIN: Margaret Atwood's novel is part family saga, part social history, part suspense tale and altogether captivating. As its elderly narrator, Iris Chase, looks back on her life - and some mysterious deaths - she evokes not only a tangled past but a luminous fictional realm...
...quiet assassin of the Crimson's chances against Albany was not in fact rebounding or defense but may have been, in the end, free-throw shooting. Along with Merchant's miscues, the Crimson as a team shot 4-of-17 (23.5 percent) from the charity stripe...
Thorpe, a mild fellow for an assassin, said quietly, as if in explanation, "When you race in front of Australians, you don't let them down." What a kid, what a race. What a show this was in Sydney. The land Down Under--big, friendly, sweating, lovable Australia--on top of the world...