Word: executioner
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EXECUTION REVEALED. Of Fedor Fedorenko, 79, who in 1984 became the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the U.S. to the Soviet Union; in Simferopol, Soviet Crimea. Fedorenko was stripped of his U.S. citizenship in 1981 for failing to report his service as a Treblinka concentration-camp guard...
Like The Terminator, the action scenes combine a mix of high-tech special effects with good-old rough 'em up fighting. But this time, it's good to see all the mechanized firepower working on the side of justice instead of against it. And Robocop's combination of controlled force...
Shrewd, grasping, rich old Cesar Soubeyran (Yves Montand) and his simpleton nephew Ugolin (Daniel Auteuil) covet their neighbor's land. Each has his reasons, but they are not good enough. Not enough, that is, to justify their terrible plot to force the decent, innocent newcomer known as Jean de Florette...
In fact, his manner and his voice were basic to his success, creating an illusion of ordinariness. This was not unplanned. Nothing in the use of his only instrument -- himself -- ever was. A cool calculator of effects, a steely perfectionist in execution, he always affected astonishment over adulation. As Mikhail...
Assistant District Attorney Gregory Waples strenuously argued that a reasonable man would avoid a confrontation, or at least would show his gun before firing it. Goetz, said Waples, was full of "blind, self-righteous, volcanic fury." Far from acting reasonably, he had attempted a "cold-blooded execution."