Word: murders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doctoral candidate in the English Department, leading sections in English 76 and teaching seminars about William Faulkner. She'd finished up all her required course work, passed her oral exams, and was two-thirds of the way through her dissertation. Dissertation." It was called "The Ideology of Murder...
Zoot Suit takes up the cudgels on behalf of the Mexican Americans who call themselves Chicanos. The place is Los Angeles in 1942, where a gang of pachucos (zoot-suited teenagers) were mass-convicted of a murder on virtually kangaroo-court terms. Street riots followed the next year...
...double agent, Nicholas plots two of Borgia's famous villainies: the murder of Cesare's captains and the capture of Urbino, a fortress city, by brazenly doublecrossing an ally. But loyalty in this arena is more dangerous than treason, and Nicholas' devotion to a former lover proves his undoing-and almost his death. As usual, Holland, who writes refreshingly taut prose, dispenses with the ponderous plots and pageantry of the genre: her people matter much more than their costumes. By substituting mental thrust and parry for the metal kind, she proves that there can be more...
...states may persist in viewing the pact as a bilateral deal that ignores broader Arab interests. Such a view could result in the near complete isolation of Egypt and Israel and in acts of terror against their leaders. Even today the possibility that a radical Arab assassination squad might murder Sadat haunts Washington and Jerusalem as well as Cairo. The disappearance of the courageous and moderate Egyptian leader could destroy whatever stability has been achieved by U.S. diplomatic efforts...
...built the plant have falsified vital safety certificates. But even as he's getting on to them, they're getting on to him−no way anyone's going to let fraudulent radiograms be introduced at a certification hearing for their newest nuclear installation. Attempted murder, Lemmon's singlehanded seizure of the plant, with a SWAT team coming through the control-room door and colleagues purposely fouling up the reactor to distract him while Fonda stands by to put his damning evidence on TV live, all follow...