Word: assassination
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More than 200 students from Leverett and Quincy Houses participated in games of assassin this past month. Those who survive today have relied on luck, skill and--usually--a tremendous amount of their time...
...does "sound rather un-Christian" to qualify one's forgiveness. True, forgiveness can be very difficult. It would be immodest, if not profane, for any of us to claim that we could act similarly to Pope John Paul II when he extended his unsolicited forgiveness to his would-be assassin in 1981. But we can admire this deed as a model for emulation...
...around him. In Travis's words, he sees how "all the animals come out at night," and hopes that "someday a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets." Failing that, Travis attempts the same himself, ultimately seeking a sort of immortality, whether as an assassin of a political figure (the Senator, candidate for president) or as a noble representative of clean justice. To the very last minute of the film (when the screen changes to an eerie negative), "Taxi Driver" absorbs the audience in the madness of an ordinary...
...Richard III, cram the screen with ingenious murders. Everyone says that if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd have been a screenwriter. But would he be Joe Eszterhas? Would he have shown one of his characters enjoying fellatio--then gasping in horror as a dagger, thrust upward by an assassin hiding under the bed, suddenly emerges through the victim's chest...
...happened so easily," reports Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer, who joined millions of Israelis Tuesday evening in watching a broadcast of a grainy amateur videotape of the murder of Yitzhak Rabin. "No one made any effort to stop the assassin. Television showed with arrows how incredibly easy it was for him. You see him for some time milling around the area where Rabin was going to get into his car. At one point, he was surrounded by three policemen who were just sitting right next to him and obviously weren't suspicious. You see him standing there cool...