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...grown bottom of the 20-ft.-deep moat. Against a stone wall, he invariably refuses a blindfold, asks permission to command the firing squad standing six paces away. He asks the squad to aim for the heart, avoid the face. "Fire!" he orders. His final sound is an involuntary shout as the bullets' impact knocks breath through his vocal cords. After fingerprinting, the body is turned over to relatives for burial...
...Costa Rica's ex-President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres, an early Castro supporter, sent a short note "suggesting" that Castro postpone his planned Costa Rica visit. Castro was annoyed but unmoved. "Have you seen the pictures of the Cubans murdered by Batista?" he demanded. "Ave Maria Purisima! The dead shout out for justice...
Evgraf, Pasha, Komarovsky (the old lecher), and Tonia (Zhivago's first wife) rush onto the stage, whisper or shout their say, commit their little deeds and consider their situations, and the clamber back into the wings. Some, like Zhivago, are tangled in the threads of introspection; others don't appear to think at all. Does Komarsky help Lara out of a sense of guilt for having violated her, out of a real love, or what: What sort of person is Tonia? Why did Pasha really leave home? Unfortunately, we can't tune in tomorrow...
When his turn came, Despaigne was allowed to write a note to his son, smoke a final cigarette and-to show his scorn and nerve-to shout the order for his own execution. On a hill overlooking the range, a crowd gathered and cheered as each volley rang out. "Kill them, kill them," the spectators bellowed. As the death toll reached 52 and the pit was halfway full, one rebel muttered: "Get it over quickly. I have a pain in my soul...
...sustained loyalty, raucous fanaticism and sheer madness, there are few sporting crowds in the world to equal the hockey fans of Montreal. Whenever Les Canadiens are in town, French Canadians jam Montreal's Forum (capacity: 13,531) to shout bilingually (English and French) for their heroes. Every Canadiens game since World War II days has been a sellout, and it is so hard to get tickets that season-ticket holders have been known to dispose of their seats in their wills...