Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kennedy's reply will probably be remembered ashis official entry into the family tradition. Hedeclared that he absolutely would not deal withthe country that offered asylum to Sirhan Sirhan,his father's assassin, and that the three banks'holdings did not give them any say in thegoverning of his corporation...
...mouth out with whisky. Brunch can be avoided by not getting out of bed before noon on Sundays, but prequel -- ptui! -- probably is inevitable for works such as Richard Condon's rowdy new novel, a report on the formative years of the author's lovable but dumb Mafia assassin Charley Partanna...
Former gridders like Edward M. Kennedy '54 and Torbert H. McDonald '40 moved on to careers in the Senate and House of Representatives. And Endicott "Babyface Assassin" Peabody, a football hero of the early 1940s, went on to serve as governor of Massachusetts...
...That Voice Again" and "In Your Eyes," his conception of what makes a good love song remains hazy and mired in cliches. These two tunes feature overly generalized and hence pointless lyrics set to often generic synth harmonies. Although Gabriel is capable of invading the mind of a political assassin, as he proved on the earlier "Family Snapshot," he seems absolutely at a loss to express anything interesting in his more amorous pieces. And his attempt at satirizing the pursuit of success, "Big Time," seems strikingly out of place on an album geared to appeal to the intoxicated youth...
...mark. Pete Dexter's novel is packed with grisly details (the severed head of an outlaw, the emergency treatment of gunshot wounds and syphilis), although not all agree with history. McCall was hanged for the killing, but in the Dexter version, the jury takes one hour to acquit the assassin, "on account of his mortal grudge against Wild Bill, and self-defense...