Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrorist action was aimed at rupturing the growing accommodation between the governing Christian Democrats and the Communists, as many leftists were prone to suspect, the effect, for the moment at least, was exactly the reverse. A gigantic labor rally in Rome, called to express outrage at the kidnaping, produced the unusual sight of white banners, with the crossed shield of the Christian Democrats, flying silk-to-silk with the red flags and the hammer and sickle of the Italian Communists...
...Little Indians, a chilling book turned into a less-chilling play and movie, is a good example of a now classic mystery format: ten suspects marooned on an island, each having good reason to suspect the other of murder. The characters are all invited, through various ruses, to Indian Island as the guests of a host who never appears. Once settled on the island, the unknown host accuses all his guests in a tape recording of committing or acquiescing to murders. The guests die off, as the suspense builds and the characters realize that one of their number...
...weapons, fishing the Lake Country for fish who don't live in shell craters. Even these vulgarities don't match the ones that flashed on our television screens every night for the better part of a decade--the Saigon police chief with his gun to the head of a suspect, Buddhist monks on fire in the streets of Hue, the little napalmed girl running in terror down a rural road. And so Paul Berlin, and one suspects O'Brien too, goes after Cacciato...
...attention of officials? Dr. De Corte, who instigated the investigation that uncovered the murders, suggested that there had been a conspiracy of silence about the nun. She had finally been suspended last August and dispatched to a Ghent hospital, where she underwent an unsuccessful drug cure. Someone -police suspect the roommate, who visited her at the hospital-provided drugs during her stay. At a press conference, Dr. De Corte revealed that in January, when she returned unchanged, the geriatric-ward nurses decided to confront the hospital administrator with their growing diary of horrors. "When...
After a time we begin to suspect that the situation exists merely as a dramatic convenience, to give Benjie some reason to turn to drugs, and then go through a rehabilitation process that comes replete with many melodramatic setbacks. In the end, we are left not really caring about the near tragedies we have witnessed, the near triumphs we are asked to share...