Word: assassine
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...return visit to Hugo's Ruy Blas with glorious howls and gloried-in blood. Especially unrestrained and awkward was the scene between Zeus and Aegisthus. Peter Gudjonsson's lumbering mannerisms didn't work well as he tried to express Aegisthus' despair. Similarly, the bodily confrontation between Aegisthus and his assassin Orestes had a uncomfortably melodramatic quality. I found myself among those laughing as Aegisthus' strangled body was dropped down a chute at midstage...
Died. Princess Irina Youssoupoff, 74, widow of Prince Felix Youssoupoff, the assassin of Rasputin, and niece of Czar Nicholas II; of a heart attack; in Paris. A fragile beauty whose wedding to Youssoupoff in 1914 mirrored all the pomp and splendor of the Romanoff empire, Princess Irina was hundreds of miles away on the evening, two years later, when her husband poisoned, shot and bludgeoned to death the Mad Monk. Soon afterward the couple fled to England, where in 1934 Irina made world headlines by winning a $125,000 libel suit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the film Rasputin...
...Colonel-Assassin. It was small wonder, then, that when Guatemalans went to the polls last week, they were receptive to Colonel Carlos Arana Osorio and his strong "law and order" pitch. Arana, 51, is best known to Guatemalans as the commander of the Zacapa Brigade, which virtually wiped out one of Latin America's largest rural guerrilla movements between...
Arana called himself "the pacifier" but his enemies nicknamed him "the colonel-assassin" for his role in the bloody operation. At least 3,000 were killed in the resulting crossfire; according to some estimates, the victims included about 80 active guerrillas, 500 sympathizers and more than 2,400 innocent peasants...
When Adolf Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem nine years ago, he sat inside a bulletproof glass booth. The idea was to protect him from a possible assassin in the courtroom-and it inspired Actor Robert Shaw to write a successful play called The Man in the Glass Booth. Now American jurists are considering a similar booth, made of plastic. Here, however, the idea is to protect the court from the defendant...