Word: executioner
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Then in 1968, one of Warhol's hangers-on -- a crazed actress named Valeria Solanis -- shot and wounded him with a .32. Neither his health nor his talent would fully recover. There had been one Warhol before the shooting; another would emerge after it. The former had been the onlooker...
Offensive Execution
In The Death Penalty, a 245-page study that was published last week, Amnesty characterizes execution in the U.S. as a "horrifying lottery" in which who dies is determined less by the crime that is committed than by politics, money and race. The punishment, according to the report, "remains both...
The Paris Elektra was the most daring in concept but the tamest in execution. Schneidman rather naively promised an "arena of the psychodrama buried deep in the tomb of the unconscious," but what occurred onstage was a fairly standard day in the death of the House of Atreus. The real...
In a pair of thoroughly mixed signals, Moscow frees some political dissidents but cracks down hard on refuseniks. -- A threatened execution of Beirut hostages does not take place, but little hope for their freedom can be found. -- Mexico is seized by a swelling current of discontent. -- A new generation of...