Word: murder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Death's Jest-Book, Beddoes' most well-known work, is a macabre tale of ghosts and murder, Ashbery said...
...murder of the priests is only one of many horrific acts we have implicitly sponsored in El Salvador and in the rest of Central America. It's time we replaced a simplistic and dubious fear of Soviet domination with a concern for human rights...
...Archbishop was speaking of the murder of the six Jesuits, who taught at the University of Central America, one of the country's most respected ! institutions and a center for leftist theological activism. In the worst attack on Salvadoran Catholic activists since the assassination of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero in 1980, they were mowed down by M-16 rifle fire at their campus residence Thursday morning; a cook at the university and her 15-year- old daughter were also cut down. The government promptly ordered an investigation, hinting that the rebels were responsible. But the brutal massacre was widely believed...
...indulgence he wants, Murphy has come to fancy himself a killer, and that is the role he tries to play here: a psychopathic hit man. He is not a good enough actor for this particular assignment, nor has he the skill as writer and director to use cold-blooded murder (three times) as the topper for gag sequences. Once or twice his former sweet hipness glimmers through, and he has written a funny bit for his pal Arsenio Hall, playing a man on a murderous crying jag. But mostly Harlem Nights offers a depressing answer to that not entirely pressing...
Vellucci said he hoped the tree would recover from this latest assault, which he called an attempt at "murder...