Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they heard a series of dull thuds. Suddenly, an elder of the church was staggering down the aisle, fatally wounded, and warning the congregation to take cover. As people dived under the benches, bullets began ripping through the thin wooden walls. When the siege was over, three churchgoers were dead and seven lay wounded. It was one of the more savage terrorist attacks in Northern Ireland's long and bloody history of sectarian violence...
...twelve hours to unravel the mystery. If the murderer is not found in the allotted time, a character named Chief Inspector Klutz takes the player off the case. The program shuts down automatically and must be replayed from the beginning. As Deadline opens, a wealthy businessman has been found dead in the library of his mansion from a mysterious drug overdose. The player, who takes the role of inspector, has been called in to investigate. He types commands into the computer, and the machine responds with descriptions of people and places and snatches of dialogue that develop the story. Suspects...
...alike appeal to the crude savage instincts of men. We have not outgrown all our old animal instincts yet, heaven grant we never shall! The moment that, as a nation, we lose brute force, or an admiration for brute force, from that moment poetry and art are forever dead among us, and we will have nothing but grammar and mathematics left. The only way poetry can ever reach one is through one's brute instincts. 'Charge of the Light Brigade,' or 'How they brought good news to Aix,' move us in exactly the same...
Come with us once again to those dear dead days when the world seemed young and in danger of not being able to grow old; when Johnny Jock and Suzie Coed had casual sex and political principles; when their undeferred buddies were spilling blood on foreign soil; when a Republican President could inflame humanists simply by waving nuclear sabers at the Russkies. Ladies and gentlemen . . . the Seventies! All together now: "Up on your feet,/ Press all your points,/ Eat Germ of Wheat,/ Toke on your joints,/ Ev'rybody do the Doonesbury Drag...
...Oliver Stone's script to fashion a big, bloody, entertaining tragicomedy that functions both as tabloid journalism (The Rise and Fall of a Drug King) and as cautionary fable. Tony Montana may be exterminated by the hired guns of a rival narcotics boss, but he is effectively dead long before that, fallen not into the gutter but facedown in a candy mountain of cocaine. He had broken the crime lord's first commandment-Don't get high on your own supply-and become a zombie before the first machine-gun blast ever...