Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lady Vanishes. Mention a Hit-chcock title and you'll instantly flash on to a scene that has seared its way into your memory: Joel McCray threatened by the enmeshing gears of a windmill in Foreign Correspondent; the assassin's gun poised in mid-air amidst the concluding strains of a London orchestra in The Man Who Knew Too Much; or the ultimate vision of the master, the boydless hand ripping away the shower curtain in the nightmare-provoker of all time, Psycho. This truism does not apply to The Lady Vanishes for some reason I can't quite fathom...
...will it all end? Some argue that Amin-who for security reasons may skip this week's summit meeting of African and Arab heads of state in Cairo-will surely be killed one day by some segment of his army or police force, if not by a lone assassin. But that would not necessarily mean the end of Uganda's troubles. The restive Christian majority might then be in a position to settle its own long list of scores and grievances. There could well be a prolonged internecine struggle for power among the Army officers who presumably would...
...than just defeat a dozen other Democrats, most of them Senators and Governors who were better known and had bigger power bases. He also destroyed forever the hopes of Alabama's George Wallace of rising to national power?a possibility already dimmed by the bullet of a would-be assassin. By showing that a nonracist Southerner could win a major party nomination, Carter gave new pride to his region and went far to heal ancient wounds...
...However, only one of the men he sentenced to die ever went to the gas chamber: Convict-Author Caryl Chessman, whom Walker ordered executed in 1960 for a robbery and rape committed in 1948. The best-known survivor of a Walker death sentence is Robert F. Kennedy's assassin, Sirhan Sirhan...
...last honest crusade and that monomaniacal figure against whom the crusade was waged. As Hitler himself realized, the contest was a stark, Wagnerian drama, and even Toland's dullest pages cannot obscure the sense of inexorable fate that pervades the script. Time after time, Hitler avoids the assassin's bomb, as if some outraged providence refused him anything less than complete and final destruction. Americans were the good guys then, and they obviously like to be reminded of the fact by writers like Toland. Mayo Mohs