| 单词 | assassin |
| 例句 | Booth was identified to detectives as the assassin. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Next came two scarred, silent men who seemed to be cronies of some far-off warlord, and then the five assassins. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z C.P. didn’t know who had shot King, but he was certain that the assassin was part of the white supremacy movement. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “I heard him talking to Cain,” said a timid voice behind them, and they found Pelor, the youngest assassin, standing nearby. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Lincoln’s assassin had just walked into a trap. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But try as she might, all she could think about was that half-starved, hopeless assassin who’d been dragged out of Endovier one autumn day by a snarling Captain of the Guard. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Poor Pittini was so old and blind he didn’t even realize what was happening, but kept right on intoning the Kyrie as the assassin was being wrestled to the ground. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The princess suddenly stared into Celaena’s eyes with a ferocity that made the assassin recoil slightly. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Joseph Stanley Brown was called to testify about the assassin's visits to the White House. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The assassin slammed shut the tome, dust flying into the air. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z As I search the smoke for any sign of her, an assassin emerges. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z No, he had to remember she was an assassin with the blessing of a pretty face and sharp wits. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The day before Jones learned from Union soldiers that Lincoln had been assassinated, and they had information that the assassins had traveled this way. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And the lawmen noted nearby tread marks in the frozen mud from another car—presumably the assassin’s. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The assassin tried not to preen—and failed miserably. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Supposing that last night an assassin joined the train. It is quite certain that he could not have left it after committing the crime?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Mkentane portrayed his namesake, while I played John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln’s assassin. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s not simply a spy; he’s also an assassin. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Confined and isolated, Mudd would wait to learn what price he would have to pay for his part in hiding Lincoln’s assassins. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, at the climax of a twelve-day manhunt that had gripped the nation, a heavily armed patrol of the Sixteenth New York Cavalry had cornered Lincoln’s assassin! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured that most of her would-be assassins had seen what had happened to Doug Swieteck’s brother and were worried I might take them out, too. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The assassin pivoted around the table and took aim again. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Maddie was safely separated from her would-be assassin, if he was an assassin. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Then the convicted assassin chanted verses he had composed a few hours before. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z With needle and thread provided by the Garretts, he sewed the blanket closed around the assassin’s corpse. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Unknown to Mudd, he had just extended his hospitality to Lincoln’s assassin and his accomplice. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Though the assassin was his Champion, he had yet to send her contract. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The assassin might have bothered to care about the slight if she had any interest in courtiers. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “For the world’s greatest assassin, this is pathetic,” said Dorian, stepping from the doorway. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was Grave, the vicious assassin, staring at the body from a distance. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The assassin searched for his arrows and went away grumbling—but the Wart realized that, even if he was safe from the archer, he had lost his way and his hawk. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “You think the life of an assassin is worth more than that of a soldier?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The assassin wasn't told of his victim’s death that Monday night. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Cain chuckled as he stepped toward the panting assassin and raised his sword, aiming at the assassin’s chest. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z On Thursday, April 20, Thomas Jones witnessed the cavalry riding out of town on the news that the assassins had been spotted in another county. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The old policemen were replaced by hired assassins with machetes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The evidence gathered at Mudd’s farm, plus alleged sightings of the fugitives southwest of his farm, suggested that the assassins were making for Virginia. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Wrinkling her nose at the sudden smell, the assassin walked past cages and stalls filled with dogs of many different breeds. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Every sound to his rear was a warning, every person he passed a potential assassin. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They leaned against the trees in the schoolyard, looking like aimless loiterers, except for their eyes, which they fastened on Lula with studied nonchalance, and then cut sideways at each other like assassins. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Though John Surratt was being sought by Stanton as one of Lincoln’s assassins, he had not even been in Washington on April 14. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They traveled for the remainder of the day, and the assassin sat in silence as she watched the forest pass, the tightness in her chest not easing until they’d left that shimmering glen far behind. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Surely, the honor of capturing Lincoln’s assassin was worth the risk of a few casualties? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Grave, the repulsive assassin, did fine, she supposed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The assassin was silent, listening to the throbbing of her heart before she spoke. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was around 7:00 P.M., fifteen hours since the assassins had arrived at Mudd’s door, and just under twenty hours since John Wilkes Booth had shot the president. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t remember whether I’d slept on the floor out of fear of assassins or bedbugs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn both saw him as he ran away. The official report says you stopped a Nazi assassin from killing them.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z This was a lucky break for the assassin. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Phlegm caught in her throat, and the assassin coughed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Was this the connection between the symbol and Serakeen, the assassin and the book? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Recognizing the unique music of cavalry on the move, the assassin knew he had only a minute or two to react before it was too late. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For five minutes, the assassin and the servant argued about whether Powell would leave the medicine with Bell. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The assassin flipped back the lid of the basket. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In his opening statement to the jury, Scoville attributed the assassin’s actions to a disturbed mind. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The assassin was alert for signs or sounds of danger. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you mad? I’m an assassin—not some court idiot!” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I believed so strongly in Mr. Muhammad that I would have hurled myself between him and an assassin. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She moved with the silent ease of an assassin as she swooped in, grabbed Larry’s phone, and promptly leaned over to look straight into his shocked face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The next day, April 4, Martin Luther King was killed by an assassin in Memphis, Tennessee. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But Chaol only gaped at the flailing assassin, his face pale as death. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Finally the assassin stopped and slapped the three ball into the pocket. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Princess Nehemia cast a worried glance in Celaena’s direction, but the assassin waved at her to resume her lesson with the Crown Prince. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z That was one thing that hopeless assassin from Endovier would have never believed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Carefully, watching Nehemia laugh as two dogs leapt upon her and buried her beneath tongues and wagging tails, the assassin opened the pen door and slipped inside. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I could imagine those teeth sinking into my heels like the assassins’ daggers sinking into Caesar, and I ran faster. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z In a flash of steel, Cain had his blade at Grave’s throat, and the pockmarked assassin bared his rotting teeth at him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She’d win, and serve the king, and then vanish into nothing, and think no more of castles or kings or assassins. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She placed it on the table beside the assassin and rested a hand on the armchair. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Chaol didn’t know if it was because of Endovier, or just being an assassin; whatever the cause of that unyielding rage, she could never entirely leash herself. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z And as for the assassin...once her injuries were healed, what better person to have at his bidding? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z While tens of thousands of mourners viewed Lincoln’s remains, detectives prepared to raid the Philadelphia home of the assassin’s sister, Asia Booth Clarke. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Two of the assassins further proved it with easy, skilled shots. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Yes, but becoming the world’s most famous assassin is!” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The princess clasped the assassin on the shoulder, and said something to the girl that made her laugh. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I am not seeking an assassin. I am seeking a hunter.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Vice President Andrew Johnson, whose luck held when his assassin backed out, now stands in the next room, summoned there after learning of Lincoln’s condition. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Why should I see an assassin as anything but a monster? I brought her here to do my bidding, not to meddle in the life of my son and empire.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I had called fire and lightning down on assassins and escaped to safety. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "Poisonings have become more frequent than an assassin's dagger, my dear. The illness of Princess Charlotte makes the queen even more vigilant in taking care of her children." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Halleck issued an order: If the assassins are caught, put them in double irons and take them to the commander of the Washington Navy Yard, who will confine them to a monitor warship anchored there. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever one of these pots rises high enough, some assassin in the Dark World is bound to be motivated to assassinate that person and win the pot. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The outcome had resulted in the hanging deaths of one woman and seven men for conspiring with assassin John Wilkes Booth in Lincoln's death. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Back in Washington, Army Major General Halleck made plans to imprison the assassins when they were caught. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They went to the jail to meet with the assassin, though officials turned them away. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Melville explained that Vaughan was big and strong, which meant that the assassin had to have been physically powerful or helped by accomplices. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Verin nudged the assassin aside and moved past him, easily securing his own rope. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “She did not imagine it, Michael. The assassin of M. Ratchett passed that way—and dropped that button.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The assassin reached into the shadow and scooped the puppy into her arms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I’m already notorious as an assassin—I don’t particularly feel like being notorious for sharing your bed.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Celaena’s hand burned when it touched the water, and she thrashed, but the princess held her firm, saying words in a tongue the assassin didn’t understand. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z An Assistant Chief Inspector, Harry Taylor, speculated that the assassins had not rushed from the ballroom among the crowd, but had kept running past the stage and escaped on 165th Street. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He placed their cues on the rack, arranged the balls, and returned to the slumbering assassin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Then the assassin takes charge and shouts, as he had planned, “Sic semper tyrannis!” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The Sorrowful Men were an ancient sacred guild of assassins, so named because they always whispered, "I am so sorry," to their victims before they killed them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “And with you,” the assassin murmured, watching her leave. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The assassin flickers and disappears, reappearing a few yards away. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The last assassin, who called himself Grave, made her pause. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z As the gray uniforms begin to converge on me, I think of what my brief future as the assassin of Panem’s new president holds. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The assassin pushed past the stumbling sergeant and the frail girl blocking his path. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He was fond of her, but Chaol didn’t know if he could sleep at night knowing that he had retrained and released the world’s greatest assassin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I’m more concerned for your safety. She might be pretty and might impress you with her cleverness, but she’s still an assassin, Dorian.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Embarrassed and aching, the assassin climbed farther onto her bed and nestled beneath the covers, hoping sleep would soon come. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The assassin lifted the dust ruffle to peer underneath. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Stalin called on the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs or NKVD, a military police force of spies and assassins, to root out treachery...whether it was real or possible or even fantastically impossible. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Dana intended to establish a command center there, and from Bryantown launch cavalry patrols through the surrounding countryside, in pursuit of the Lincoln and Seward assassins. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s a knight, a mercenary, or an assassin, depending on the game. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Dorian watched a grin spread across the assassin’s face as she beheld the source. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Potential assassins, waiting for the right amounts of money. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She knew there was only one way the assassin could have known she had the book. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Was this how the other assassins at the Assassins’ Keep had felt all those years she had spent hogging Arobynn Hamel’s attention? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Timidly, almost clumsily, the assassin strode over to the Crown Prince and kissed him on the cheek. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Yes, of course. For risking your life to stop that Nazi assassin. It was a very noble thing to do.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The girl smiled at Celaena and reached to touch the assassin’s forehead. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They wondered who the assassin was and how the killing was carried out: Was Vaughan murdered before he was thrown off the train, or did the impact kill him? Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The two women lagged behind their mistress and exchanged exasperated looks that informed the assassin this conversation had been held many times before. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Idle assassin and the prince glanced at each other, their blue eyes reflecting the same intent. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The assassin of the president was in there, injured, desperate, and on the run from a manhunt. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The assassin could not swallow, he was completely paralyzed. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It has never been determined whether his assassin, a white petty criminal named James Earl Ray, acted alone, as he claimed, or as part of a conspiracy. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z He had come here with the intention of embarrassing a snide assassin, and had instead found a young woman pouring her secrets into a pianoforte. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I’m meeting with His Grace, Duke Perrington. I do hope we’ll see more of each other, Lady Lillian,” she said, watching her with a keenness that would make any assassin proud. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know assassins could be so clumsy. If you need anything, send word. I’ve had my fair share of monthly pains.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z About a hundred yards from Booth’s camp, Jones dismounted, walked slowly, and whistled the secret signal as he came within earshot of the assassins. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Suppose I wasn’t an assassin. Would you fancy me then?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was only lately that he was having small moments of clarity, of illumination, and seeing himself for the first time as the closest of Mary Ann’s enemies, the kindest of her assassins. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite claims to the contrary, Corkhill said, the assassin was completely sane. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “You’ll never see it coming. Our assassins are trained in discretion. They will come in the night, and it will look like a humiliating accident.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It really is rather rusty for the old Weed, who did not know he was being sent as an assassin. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Sure enough, Cain was in the lead, and had taken the easiest path toward the flag, Grave and Verin on his trail, Nox close behind, and Pelor, the young assassin, not far below him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Glancing around her room, the assassin let out a long sigh. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The other assassin takes advantage of my hesitation and shoves me back into the smoke. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Experienced interrogators, they conduct extensive interviews with every North Korean defector and have been trained to screen out the assassins that Kim Jong Il’s government periodically dispatched to the South. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z While training her to be his finest and most loyal assassin, Arobynn had never allowed her to return home to Terrasen. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The Ice Court had been built to withstand an onslaught of armies, assassins, Grisha, and spies. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Her eyes sore, the assassin looked up from the book and sighed. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The prince nodded to another flock of cooing courtiers, and didn’t look at either the assassin or the Captain of the Guard as he spoke again. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z July Fourth festivities on Monday were subdued as Americans waited to learn whether their president had survived the assassin's bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The palace of the King of Elfhame has many secret alcoves and hidden corridors, perfect for trysts or assassins or staying out of the way and being really dull at parties. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I’m not going to debate morality with an assassin. You kill people for money, you know.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z None of them realized that the assassin was already out the back door. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It almost seems like he prefers a nest of spies and assassins to the splendor of his own bed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The assassin would have grimaced, but she forgot all about Kaltain as her eyes fell upon her companion. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The dark web is where hackers congregate, drugs are trafficked, sex is sold, and assassins are hired. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The assassin reached the bed and pounced on Seward. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The assassin reached behind his back for one of his revolvers. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A hand upon his sword, Dorian Havilliard watched the assassin from his spot on the other side of the sleeping company. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z How could the Augurs have— The assassin circles me, and I shelve my questions. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Killers aren’t always assassins. Sometimes they don’t even have blood on their hands.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z As the assassin laughed quietly to herself, head bowed to the ground, Dorian surveyed her body. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Henry himself also died at the hands of an assassin, in 1610, when René Descartes was 14 years old. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “I did not enlist to guard an assassin.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The Crown Prince’s dogs, who had dutifully trotted alongside their master, approached the assassin with wagging tails and lay at her feet. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The assassin hurried to the pen and looked down over the gate. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Maybe the professional assassin had had enough, or had changed his mind. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z On June 5, hours after winning the California primary, Robert Kennedy was killed by an assassin in Los Angeles. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Chaol Westfall stopped short when he found the assassin dangling from the beam of the bedroom doorway, repeatedly hoisting herself up to touch her chin to the wooden bar. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I do not speak of anarchy. Call me a traitor all you like—I’ve been convicted as an assassin already.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Seriously, there is no part of me that cares about the welfare of assassins or Templars or any game character ever. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z After hours of enjoying himself at the feast, Dorian entered Celaena’s rooms, not sure what, exactly, he was doing in the chambers of an assassin at two in the morning. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The assassin understood that the odds of escape were against him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Andrew Johnson will not, however, suffer the far worse fate of death at the hand of an assassin. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z If whoever sent the assassin had been desperate enough to send someone onto the Current of Faith, they shouldn’t have given up so easily. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The assassin broke free, shouting “Freedom!” and throwing his right arm up as high as it could reach. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to rid myself of my invisible assassin. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z If that was the assassin’s ship, she could find out where it had come from. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z In a strange twist, many newspapers mocked Lincoln for the way he eluded the assassins by wearing a cheap disguise as he snuck into Washington. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “If there’s an invisible assassin in this place, I can only imagine it’s the Devil himself. I dare say he feels quite at home.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Reporters seeking a great story sought to uncover the final act of Booth’s life: the disposal of the assassin’s remains. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Despite your visions of a perfect world under an empire, your rulers and politicians are quick to destroy each other. So are assassins, I suppose.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Almost before I’m on my feet, one of the assassins has a scim at my throat. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z No, he would not be the assassin’s last victim. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was sometimes necessary to kill people, for example; and it was so much less troubling for the assassin if he could do so in a state of grace. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Booth hopes to create the illusion that Washington, D.C., is a hotbed of assassins, resulting in the sort of mass chaos that will make it easier for them all to escape. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The Republicans— headed by Caesar’s assassins, Brutus and Cassius—made up the opposing side. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Security has introduced a double as a protective measure to confuse any would-be assassins. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “How about the story of the idiotic prince who won’t leave the assassin alone?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The surface of the gem was smooth and round, and it gleamed up at the assassin like a purple eye. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Dorian watched his friend disappear into the castle, and then returned to the assassin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z With the assassin’s trail in Maryland growing cold, the soldiers would soon leave and shift the action to other places far from Bryantown and his farm. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because I’m an assassin, and he’s Captain of the Guard, forced to belittle himself by minding the would-be King’s Champion.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Boston Corbett watched the assassin’s every move inside the barn. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "Then why did the assassin have his dagger?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “No one has called me friend in a long time,” the assassin said. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The restoration of the theater was meant as a tribute to Abraham Lincoln, but Ford’s has also become a memorial to his assassin. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But the Captain of the Guard trusted the assassin well enough to save her life. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He hadn’t the faintest clue what her life was like, how she became an assassin, how she learned to play the pianoforte...It was all a mystery. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Distracted by other leads, many of them dead ends, Lieutenant Dana ignored the one tip that placed Lincoln’s assassin within his reach. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “We all felt that the cowardly assassin had run amuck and might be lurking in the thick forest waiting a chance to get another victim,” Cherrie wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Jones persuaded the assassins that the best way to escape was to stop running and go into hiding. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “A hundred to one he doesn’t tell them about his assassin, though.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Hedge began retelling the story, but in his version Piper was a kung fu assassin and there were a lot more Boreads. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Because once the ball was over, she would go back to being an assassin, and he would still be a prince. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It had been years and years since she’d attended anything of this sort, and as the High Priestess lowered her arms and stared at the crowd, the assassin shifted in her seat. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Then the great wings of the aerial assassin began to row the air, but reluctant and undecided. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She lowered her gaze to the assassin, pinning her with the intensity of it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Seward, helplessly lying in bed, was sure to be home when the assassins arrived. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If he didn’t know better, he would have thought himself to be the assassin! Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In an intense but calm voice, the assassin confided to Augustus, as though trying to persuade him, the strangest thing: “I’m mad. I’m mad!” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was nothing of the assassin in her face. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He was a knight now, no longer a smuggler, and he had never been an assassin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Lee had once seen a painting in which a saint of the Church was shown being attacked by assassins. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z One by one, the threads of his rope snapped beneath Grave’s dagger, and Nox, sensing the vibrations, looked up at the assassin in horror. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Kaltain watched in despair and bewilderment as Dorian carried the weeping assassin in his arms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Now we learned that Hershel had indeed made it back to Narewka, only to be taken prisoner and murdered by the SS assassins on that terrible day in August. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Relief trickled down the assassin’s spine as he recognized David Herold. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want to know what you’re going to do with the assassin,” he said, and his father smiled in a way that made Dorian’s blood run cold. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The assassin was buried inside a gun box that served as his casket. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z But he was wrong to think the newspapers or government was suppressing his letter: His friend, terrified of being connected to the assassin, never delivered the letter to the newspaper. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They fit the profile of the men now known to the whole country as Lincoln’s assassins. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Fuller arrived home to find a frantic Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., almost incoherent in his concern over becoming the assassin’s next target. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Claudius looked around him, frowning with suspicion, as if he sensed an assassin lurking. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “There are two courses open to our mysterious assassin,” said Poirot slowly. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Archery was one of the first skills Arobynn had taught her—a staple of any assassin’s training. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The cavalry is here in pursuit of the assassin who escaped. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And so Magister Brangwain Spurge, unsuccessful assassin, leaned forward with his elbows on his scrawny knees and began to make his full confession. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “Been a week since we met with the assassin and we still ain’t found the ship she came from,” the captain said abruptly, his voice coarse as sandpaper. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “I’m impressed you got up here so quickly—and without a pack of court ladies hounding after you. Perhaps you should try your hand at being an assassin.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She walked to Celaena, and it was all the assassin could do to keep from backing out of the tomb and running away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The orchestra conductor said he felt Booth’s hot breath as the assassin pushed past him and struck at him with the knife. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z An assassin like that never stopped at just killing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But he was sympathetic to the assassin’s situation. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave me Ashe’s money as one would give a hired assassin his fee. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The other two assassins come at me fast, and though I fight with both scims, I can’t get the upper hand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Criminals beheaded in Palermo, heretics burned alive in Toledo, assassins drawn and quartered in Paris—Europeans flocked to every form of painful death imaginable, free entertainment that drew huge crowds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This is the break the assassin is looking for. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z At about 12:30 A.M., the Sixteenth New York Cavalry headed for Garrett’s farm and, they hoped, the capture of Lincoln’s assassin. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They say he has kept his identity a secret to guard against assassins. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Arise and go forth so that the assassins will stop waking us in our beds with rounds of gunfire.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Henry III was stabbed by an assassin on 1 August 1589, while the two Henrys were besieging Paris, but lived long enough to confirm Henry of Navarre as his heir. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z There might even be assassins after me by now—I’m probably on the assassination lottery list in the Pirate’s Den. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If we did fetch him, it would be an admission of guilt—that he really was an assassin working for us. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The twofold challenge he faces is the traditional assassin’s plight: find the most efficient path into the state box and then find the perfect escape route from the theater. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “But why is it so wrong for me to want to know more? Like how you became an assassin—and what things were like for you before that.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They would accompany the assassins in the ferryboat and help them on the other side. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Chaol stood with Dorian in the shadows atop the mezzanine, staring down at the assassin as she punched at the dummy situated in the center of the floor. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Did she know what he might have wanted to do with her if she wasn’t an assassin? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In 1869, President Andrew Johnson released the body of John Wilkes Booth to the assassin’s brother, Edwin, who had him buried quietly in the family plot at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was strange to think of this woman as an assassin, but seeing her now, all of her oddities and faults made sense. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Fire had killed fifteen more, and an assassin had transformed the closing ceremony from what was to have been the century’s greatest celebration into a vast funeral. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Or perhaps especially by a tomb raider from a family of assassins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Hadn’t the duke given her enough bloodbane to seriously impair the assassin? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I hung up on him but he called again, and again and again, each time repeating the same lines, that I should watch my back, that his assassin was coming for me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It is not known exactly what was said between the men, but Cox does agree to help the assassins. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z A white woman, of Afrikaner origin, risked her life so that we may know, and bring to justice this assassin. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He escaped from his Soviet handlers, always fearful that he might end up dead by an assassin's bullet. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She was a haughty, vulgar, utterly impertinent assassin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She reached for the hand mirror that Celaena kept by her bed and held it for the assassin to see. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Though men’s magazines often suffer from worse sorts of idiocies having to do with violence and assassins for hire, they rarely have these fatuous quizzes in them. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Applause rippled through the sponsors and trainers, and Celaena flashed an appreciative grin in the assassin’s direction. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Young John Garrett, back from an errand at a neighboring farm, reported that the U.S. government was offering a $140,000 reward for Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Pelor, the gangly assassin, wasn’t yet strong enough to manage a longbow, and barely made any shots. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Back at Ford’s Theatre, the manhunt for Booth almost ended before it began when one man, an army major, rose from his front-row seat to pursue the assassin. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Who are you?” the assassin breathed, knowing the answer, but wanting to hear it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I think he killed him to defend Cel—to defend the assassin.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Cain, once again a man of flesh and blood, walked over to the sprawled assassin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Catelyn clenched her hands, feeling the tightness in her scarred fingers where the assassin's steel had cut to the bone as she fought to save her son. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z These words of encouragement, even coming as they did from the mouths of our assassins, were of great help. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And Lazlo was surprised by the strength of his gratitude—to be believed, even by a tomb raider from a family of assassins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Police suspected that the assassins were gang members. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She glanced sidelong at the assassin, giving her another head-to-toe examination. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Barristan the Bold, they call him. Twice he has saved me from assassins.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z This was the assassin’s first chance to describe his deed, and the actor in him probably made the most of the dramatic story. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “For someone so superstitious, you risk angering the gods by not attending. I imagine that an assassin would take more interest in the day of the dead.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Mudd agreed that, as long as they left immediately, he would still help the assassins. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Unable to say anything, the assassin simply held her—for as long as it took for the pain to ease. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Now Robinson leans his full weight against the door as the assassin tries to push his way in. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes you just want a larger-than-life adventure story about thieves, wizards, assassins and kings to dwell in for a good long while, and this certainly scratched that itch. Sublime New Fantasy Fiction 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z The citadel in Braavos is the somewhat monastic headquarters of the Faceless Men, an order of assassins who change their faces as necessary. New Faces on HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z If the five were once cheerfully riotous kids, they’ve become gentlemanly comic assassins. The Kids in the Hall Have Gotten Old. Their Comedy Hasn’t. 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Carrie spends the first half of the episode shielding the President-elect from her would-be assassins and the second half dealing with the aftermath of the attack. Homeland season six finale recap – America First 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z In the bravura action sequence, Keanu Reeves’s immensely talented assassin has to defeat a gantlet of enemies to reach the top of the staircase. A John Wick Action Scene, Step by Step 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z In “Colombiana,” Saldana’s ultimate career goal as an assassin is to dispose of the drug lord who once ordered her parents’ killing. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Colombiana’ and ‘Spy’ 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z But if hitwoman movies were concerned with realism, they wouldn’t make their female assassins charismatic stunners. Assassins in stockings and stilettos: is it time movies killed off hitwoman cliches? 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Yes he was ruthless, yes plotters - real and imagined - were tortured and executed; but England was at war and there were assassins who wanted to kill the Queen. X-rays reveal hidden secrets of Tudor portraits 2013-01-03T17:44:00Z For the past two and a half years, I’ve traveled to a dozen countries to investigate the activities of Russian assassins from the military intelligence unit that British authorities say poisoned Mr. Skripal. After ‘The Salisbury Poisonings,’ Locals Picked Up the Pieces 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Then Forsyth found an editor who understood that the story’s fascination lay not in de Gaulle’s fate but in the complex chess game between a determined assassin and the French leader’s formidable security team. In ‘The Outsider,’ Frederick Forsyth shares his life of intrigue 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z Movie assassins tend to move through the world like chic land sharks: sleek, ruthless, undetectable until it’s too late. Making a Murderer, David Fincher Style 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Dee, who had been out of political favor and in prison for several years, sets out to unravel an elaborate conspiracy involving all manner of treachery, hidden agendas, shadowy assassins and an occasional talking animal. | 'Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame': ?Detective Dee? With Andy Lau - Review 2011-09-01T21:38:44Z In the first Wick movie, the assassin resumes his bloody ways after gangsters kill his puppy — a gift from his dead wife — and steal his car. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: There Will Be Blood, Yeah 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z George is terrific as a lonely assassin and gun maker. Trailer Trash 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z She’d gone from being a Langley analyst/intelligence agent/assassin to a stay-at-home mom, and she was miserable. Review | A bored housewife jumps back into the spy game again in ‘The Paris Diversion’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The assassin holds his gun in one hand while his other arm is raised, index finger pointing up. ‘Circumstantial Pleasures’ Review: The Lyrical Junkman Cometh 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Unknown to them but very obvious to us, a sinister masked figure is coming from behind to kill them both and leave behind calling cards announcing the assassin as the Jack of Diamonds Killer. Seven Psychopaths – review 2012-12-09T00:05:57Z Hank retorts with the unerring aim of a professional assassin. Bob Odenkirk scores with "Lucky Hank," a frustrated guy who shares DNA with his "Saul" conman 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z Out from Wed The American George Clooney communicates the loneliness of the career assassin. This week's new films 2010-11-20T00:06:00Z Myung-hoon is offered the chance to save Hye-in from a cruel fate by agreeing to become an assassin operating in South Korea. ‘Commitment’: Teen assassin’s evolution hits the mark 2013-12-05T20:18:39Z The movie, directed and written by Asian Americans, centers on trained assassin Shang-Chi trying to live an ordinary life in San Francisco. Marvel’s ‘Shang-Chi’ jabs, flips Asian American film cliches 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z She has a psychopath's ego and an assassin's skill, but she has a blundering way of being alive. Manic pixie death girl: “Killing Eve” and the adorable assassin 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z The assassins use curved swords to lob these portable guillotines, lacrosse-style, mowing down the opposition with terminal efficiency. Movie Review: In ‘The Guillotines,’ Elite Assassins Are in Pursuit 2013-06-13T23:22:15Z That went to Cady Noland for a silkscreen ink processing on aluminum of the famous photograph showing Lee Harvey Oswald and his assassin Jack Ruby. Auctions: Fortune Smiles on Abstract Art 2011-11-10T12:00:07Z The idea behind “Booth,” she goes on, was to reanimate the people who surrounded the assassin, transforming the family into autonomous fictional characters. ‘Booth’ Pushes an Assassin Off Center Stage 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Another time, the assassins face down the enemy army in a garbage dump, taking cover behind enormous bales of paper that loom in the landscape like boulders on the Texas plains. | 'Vengeance': Let a Hail of Bullets Be Your Umbrella 2010-12-09T23:48:00Z But Yugoslavia's disintegration in the 1990s, spawning seven new states, shattered perceptions of the assassin. On centenary of WWI assassination, the past still haunts Sarajevo 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z Or if either of them were the assassin’s “inside man?” ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 7: Bombs Away 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z When he arrived, the Autodefensas had tracked down two Knights Templar assassins, known as El Chaneque and Caballo, men allegedly responsible for the kinds of barbaric atrocities now standard in cartel culture. The Missing Story of the Drug War 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z A long-serving oil minister in Saudi Arabia who led the kingdom through the 1973 oil crisis, the nationalization its state energy company and once found himself held hostage by the assassin Carlos the Jackal. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z In this excerpt, Margolick examines Kennedy’s response to the killing — and his belief that he too would die at an assassin’s hand. Book excerpt: After MLK death, RFK 'poured his heart out' 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Sitting down for lunch after the shoot, Mr. Criss described the series as a parable about “the ultimate creator and the ultimate destroyer,” in which resentment turned Mr. Cunanan from aspirant to assassin. Darren Criss Plays the Happy-Go-Lucky Killer in the Versace TV Drama 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z But Hat-Neb's life is in danger from an unknown assassin, and Hopi and Isis find themselves with a complicated web of mysteries to solve. Egyptian Chronicles: The Horned Viper by Gill Harvey - review 2012-07-09T08:00:00Z The job of protecting former presidents from potential assassins, it appeared, wasn’t one that rewarded looking on the bright side and assuming that nothing could go wrong. Positive thinking is for suckers! 2012-11-25T13:00:00Z When an assassin makes an attempt on the life of the crown prince, who is only an infant, Cas swoops in to save the day. 4 New Y.A. Fantasy Novels Full of Dark, Enchanting Twists 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z That is a shame, because the story of a young assassin being hunted by the authorities fits television far more snugly than film. Tired of rewatching Fleabag? Here are 30 TV hidden gems to stream 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Damon played a CIA assassin with memory loss who tried to discover his true identity while evading the CIA's attempts to kill him. Revamped "Bourne" captures movie box office crown 2012-08-12T18:52:34Z In an electrifying narrative, Rabin’s attempt to negotiate peace is juxtaposed with his assassin’s plan to thwart it by killing him. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z “You don’t know how hard it is to stay hidden from them,” he gasps, and immediately Hannah’s would-be assassin appears in the trees, spraying bullets everywhere. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 10: Fireworks 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z One of the show’s most enigmatic characters is an assassin of inscrutable allegiance played by Indian actress Shruti Haasan who has very few lines but very quickly establishes herself as a formidable, highly watchable force. USA’s Bourne spinoff “Treadstone” feels retro and exactly what’s needed today 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z He says to Arya that a servant of their god does not ask questions - but are they really serving the god if they are paid assassins? ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 5: Hold the Door 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Caesar is either a heroic, benevolent ruler or tyrant; Brutus is either a patriot or assassin. Julius Caesar in our times 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z It’s the assassin’s job to kill the president before he can push the button. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 7: Bombs Away 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z But whether an assassin or entrepreneur or actor, you’re only as good as your last hit. David O Russell: ‘I relate to Joy – she manages a lot of commerce that is unforgiving and nasty’ 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Detective Michael Bennett fights two drug cartels in New York City while an assassin targets him and his family. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Van Damme plays an assassin forced to work with a rival to bring down a drug cartel in the movie, which is tentatively slated to be released in 2011. Actor Van Damme suffers minor heart attack on set 2010-10-20T14:39:00Z It is not about being an assassin or doing things an assassin would do, even if there are missions calling for Alonzo to “assassinate” a boat. Video Games: Peggle 2, Assassin’s Creed Pirates, Blek and Doki-Doki Universe 2013-12-17T23:04:12Z Arya Stark is turning into a pint-sized assassin with some serious fighting skills. Game of Thrones season 6 trailer: here be even more dragons 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z After the trial, Wynn called Francis a "digital assassin" and said he hoped the large verdict would discourage others from taking what he described as cheap shots. Judge halves slander verdict won by casino mogul 2012-11-12T19:23:07Z Although 3,000 Sikhs died in mob uprisings after her death, the Sikh community honored the assassin as a hero and took care of his family. 'India: A Portrait': Patrick French's new history of India since 1947 2011-07-27T19:39:04Z The odd behavior we saw last week — Arya strolling about the city as if assassins weren’t after her — was, it turns out, just odd behavior, not a feint masking some clever twist to come. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 8: I’m Still Me 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z He will have his own crack at the genre when he starts on his next film, an adaptation of Patrick DeWitt’s The Sisters Brothers, about two assassins riding on a mission to San Francisco. Jacques Audiard: ‘I wanted to give migrants a name, a shape… a violence of their own’ 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Pursued by Roman assassins sent by King Herod to massacre Jewish children, the boy awakens to his power as a healer and his celestial parentage. Scripture as a Springboard in Hollywood 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z One friend even admires David for his skills as a "social assassin." Larry David's back with Season 8 of 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' 2011-07-08T18:47:04Z Proving to be an amateur assassin, he winds up in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family. The Carpetbagger: New Zealand Vampires and Nazi Zombies at Sundance 2013-12-05T21:03:46Z Think of The Matador, where his ice-cold assassin suddenly started walking around in his underwear for no real reason. Brosnan's back! Why we should celebrate the shouty former Bond's return 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Albert Garrick is a Victorian magician turned assassin who prowls the shadows of London town doing his grisly work. Eoin Colfer's top ten villains 2013-05-23T11:09:56Z Still, the ultimate villains here aren't the hired assassins or lowly water engineers but the faceless corporate owners who play God, deciding if entire regions live or die. Amid a real drought, thriller 'Water Knife' cuts to the quick 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z In Luc Besson’s “Anna,” a struggling, beautiful young woman is coerced into becoming a world-class assassin, and finds herself pining for her freedom while dispatching her targets. ‘Anna’ Review: a Curiously Familiar Female Assassin 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z After leaving the Oval Office, he even backed a gun-control bill named in honour of his press secretary, James Brady, who was crippled by an assassin’s bullet meant for Reagan himself. The great storyteller’s story 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Well, Killers could be, in its dreams, the Pitt-Jolie Mr. and Mrs. Smith — except that the Mrs. isn't also a professional assassin. Killers: My Husband Is an Assassin (in a Very Bad Movie) 2010-06-05T02:35:00Z He lays out for us the lives of Heydrich and the two assassins, who were trained and dispatched by the British but were in fact a Czech named Kubis and a Slovak named Gabcik. Assassination Fascination: A Review of Laurent Binet's Prize-Winning HHhH 2012-04-25T10:45:49Z Keanu Reeves visits Paris and paints the town red as the titular assassin in “John Wick: Chapter 4.” Al Franken Talks Potential TikTok Ban on ‘The Daily Show’ 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Making the talk show rounds in anticipation of his aptly named new sitcom "Anger Management" and his Monday evening Comedy Central roast, the Vatican assassin is revealing a more sedate side of himself this week. Charlie Sheen's latest role: Acting normal 2011-09-16T19:17:00Z Margo Price contains multitudes on her rollicking new single “To the Mountain and Back”: “I’ve been a dancer, a saint, an assassin,” she sings with a hard-living swagger atop a chugging guitar riff. Britney Spears and Elton John’s Mash-up, and 8 More New Songs 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z "The Avengers," this year's top earner with a box office gross of $623 million, features an assassin with a bow and arrow and the destruction of New York City. Violence baked into popular culture 2012-12-21T10:16:05Z The star, Martin Sheen, apparently had a sweet temperament that made him the antithesis of the would-be assassin he had agreed to play, and the performance took him to some strange places. Stream These Three Great Documentaries 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z He is an assassin, certainly, but is this act of violence a political statement? ArtsBeat: Noah Hawley Talks About His New Novel, 'The Good Father' 2012-03-21T15:29:13Z The musical’s wickedly searing depiction of America’s rogues’ gallery of presidential killers and assassin wannabes hasn’t changed. Perspective | In words and music, New York theaters take aim at an America at war with itself 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z But Villanelle, the glam assassin at the center of “Killing Eve,” is nothing but reactions. Review: ‘Killing Eve’ Returns in Fighting Form 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Does Arya really want to follow the tutelage of her faceless man assassin, and has she become nothing but the desire for revenge? TV Picks: 'Daredevil,' 'Game of Thrones,' 'Outlander' 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The FBI had long thought that Italian assassins did the hit. ‘The Irishman’ tells us who killed Jimmy Hoffa. A lawyer with a secret trove of documents says the movie got it wrong. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Pundits have seized on that “assassin” line, as if Bob were a sensible or interesting enough character to take seriously as a folk hero. Review | What is Sean Penn thinking? His debut novel is a mess, again. 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z He had brought his jacket from the kitchen; perhaps the pockets were crammed with assassin’s requisites. Book Excerpt: ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Her journey takes her to the ancient streets of Prague where she finds herself in a shadowy world of secret religious societies and assassins who will stop at nothing. CJ Daugherty's top 10 secret society books 2013-01-10T14:58:14Z Johnny Depp plays a scientist whose research into super-advanced computers takes a leap forward when he eludes would-be assassins by having his consciousness uploaded into a machine. 'Transcendence'? Not in this Johnny Depp sci-fi thriller 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z His closest friend is Bon, an assassin with the C.I.A.’s Phoenix program, “a genuine patriot” who volunteered to fight after Communists murdered his father for the crime of being a village chief. ‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z He draws on numerous official sources, including the government commission that investigated the murder and police interviews with the assassin, a 25-year-old religious student named Yigal Amir. Rabin’s death was Netanyahu’s victory: An explosive new film argues that Bibi is morally culpable for the 1995 assassination 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z Julius Caesar speaks into a handheld camera, live-streamed onto surveillance screens that ring the theatre, holding an authoritarian press conference—until the assassins strike, and the footage becomes a terrifying execution video. Two Ways to Bring Shakespeare Into the Twenty-First Century 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The fire door through which her narrator proposes to let the would-be assassin escape “is visible only to the eye of faith,” Mantel writes. Unnerving short stories by Hilary Mantel, Margaret Atwood and Joyce Carol Oates Not for nothing is one of her most famous customers Villanelle, the deadly assassin in “Killing Eve.” Is This the Real Life? Is This Just Fantasy? 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z “No one,” he replies, before allowing Arya to enter the lair of the assassins’ guild known as the Faceless Men. 'Game of Thrones' recap: Arya takes up with assassins' guild 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z In Fred Zinnemann’s “The Day of the Jackal,” Edward Fox plays an assassin who, by the standards of his stoic counterparts in the genre, must be one of the profession’s least discreet practitioners. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z The innocent brother, credited simply as the Warrior, goes into hiding after his nefarious sibling begins fielding assassins to murder him. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z And the role of the surgically altered assassin defeats poor Ms. Rodriguez. Review: Seeking Revenge for ‘The Assignment’ She Didn’t Want 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z For most assassins, says Newton, the intended victim is always a "Hitler" of sorts and deserving of death. Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence by Michael Newton – review 2012-11-18T00:05:09Z "Everybody's got the right to their dreams," the assassins sing, and that can be at the expense of someone else's life. Sondheim Assassins revival hits the mark in London 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The president now has his own air force of drone assassins to dispatch more or less anywhere on the planet to take out more or less anyone. The real face of Washington (and America): It can happen here — in fact, it did 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z Over the past decade, he said, it has become customary to put Lincoln pennies face up on the Booth family grave in Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, to lock the assassin in the ground. For a Biography of John Wilkes Booth, Terry Alford Turns to Amateur Researchers 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Dietrich adds a contemporary counterplot: When a reporter saves a woman from neo-Nazi assassins, she finds that her family history is intertwined with that decades-old Tibet expedition. Crime fiction: Spenser's last stand, The Nameless Detective and new books by Western Washington authors 2011-07-06T22:33:03Z In another we see the mushy disposition of an assassin who rescues a baby and takes him home with her. Critic?s Notebook: Good Guy Up Against the Aliens and Sheen 2011-03-06T23:03:34Z Another self‑publicising sister first concocted a stunt involving a forged letter from the King of the Zulus and then hoaxed newspapers with a claim that assassins had tried to stab her. The Marquess of Queensberry: Wilde's Nemesis by Linda Stratmann – review 2013-04-17T13:00:03Z But, as Sherlock’s stakes have risen, and as the guns and assassins have multiplied, it is starting to feel worryingly like we are watching villains be taken to task by a mutation named Sherlock Bond. Sherlock is slowly and perversely morphing into Bond. This cannot stand 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z Snakes on a Plane 13: The would-be assassin is foiled when a gate agent questions his “emotional support viper.” Style Invitational Week 1304: What if you could wonder . . . whatever? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z How did you, Bill Hader, end up playing a professional assassin? Bill Hader Kills With More Than Just Kindness on His New HBO Show 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z And with knife skills such as those, one would imagine Laura to have been a killer in her past, a criminal, maybe an assassin? Is the real monster in “Pieces of Her” the mother-artist? 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z Ruiz approaches the theme of finality as a riddle-upon-riddle involving assassins, a boardinghouse that begins looking like something from “The Shining,” and an ambiguous deliverance. ‘Night Across the Street’: a surreal, rewarding farewell 2013-04-25T20:44:45Z You may know Waller-Bridge’s work more recently from “Killing Eve,” the effervescently bloody pas-de-deux about an international assassin and the investigator pursuing her. Review: As She Was Saying, Brilliantly, in a New ‘Fleabag’ 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The 48-year-old former Bond girl plays a retired assassin haunted by her past life in the kung fu thriller "Reign of Assassins," which opens in Asia on Thursday. Michelle Yeoh returns to martial arts film genre 2010-10-04T13:52:00Z In the show, assassins hang out through space and time in a kind of killers' clubhouse where they encourage each other. “Assassins” is Stephen Sondheim's killer musical that we don’t talk about 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z The assassin isn’t born until Page 59, and his consciousness doesn’t take even faint shape until much later, when he proceeds through a checklist of villainous behaviors: torturing animals, playing with guns, assaulting people. ‘Booth’ Pushes an Assassin Off Center Stage 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z At the center of it is Sevigny, accomplishing the feat of portraying a taciturn, transgender assassin figuring out how to navigate her relationship with an entire new family. Chloe Sevigny: LGBT community’s made “huge strides” 2012-07-11T12:00:00Z Lombardi battles a bevy of cartoonish assassins, seemingly inspired by the Jason Bourne universe, in enjoyable hand-to-hand fight scenes, featuring fluid editing and open compositions. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z This kind of firearm isn’t an assassin’s tool. What TV gets wrong about guns 2014-02-14T23:30:00Z Footage from the video game adaption starring “Homeland” co-star Rupert Friend as a genetically engineered assassin debuted Friday at the pop-culture convention. ‘Hitman: Agent 47’ trailer takes aim at Comic-Con 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Topics: , , Looper, time traveling assassins, Babies, crying babies, pope costumes, sacrilege, , Watch Pope Francis meet a tiny baby dressed as Pope Francis 2014-02-26T22:28:00Z Whereas I look sinister, if not like an assassin — one of Murdoch’s many assassins. What I Wore: Keeping His Cool in a Meltdown 2011-07-29T22:06:41Z Yet even in Isaka’s novel there are Western references: One of the assassins is obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine, a detail that is preserved in the movie. The Japanese Author Behind ‘Bullet Train’ Is OK That the Film Isn’t So Japanese 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z The storyline sees the pair careering around the world as they are chased by US secret service types, Spanish drug dealers and German assassins. They think it's all over for Tom Cruise. Is it? 2010-06-23T11:25:00Z Agents like Carr work as spies and assassins for a group of older women, survivors of the unnamed catastrophe, who appear to operate behind the scenes to maintain order in the new society. Watch List: ‘Electric City’ by Tom Hanks to Make Debut on Yahoo! Screen 2012-07-16T21:54:39Z One week, he was a taciturn, tortured assassin exacting grievous violence on toxic men in Lynne Ramsay’s brutal stunner You Were Never Really Here. Is Joaquin Phoenix set to be the greatest actor of his generation? 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Michael flees to England on a fishing boat, and swiftly disarms an assassin heading for Elizabeth. Fire Over England: the untold story of the Spanish Armada 2013-06-27T08:30:02Z The whole House of Black and White is getting really tiresome, unless it's all been about turning Arya into a merciless assassin, which was always her goal anyway. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6, Episode 6: A Dragon Queen on the Campaign Trail 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z When it comes to being an assassin and a mother, you'd think that the latter would be the easier task. Netflix's "Kill Boksoon" slays with a sharp, stylish take on an assassin balancing work & parenting 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z A creepy looking guy in a suit follows him, and uses the old Soviet assassin method of applying a sedative or poison by using a hidden injector in the end of an umbrella. "Fringe" recap: Peter screws up 2010-12-10T13:30:00Z Gordon and Bullock track the flute assassin, cornering and killing him in the mayor’s mansion, which looks a lot like the Montauk Club in Park Slope. 'Gotham' Recap: Land Deals and Flutes of Death 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Called the "mother of all action films" by Netflix, "Gunpowder Milkshake" is the story a mother-daughter assassin team and their pals who rebel against the men who could take everything from them. From female assassins to sexy beasts, here's what's new on Netflix in July 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z It was a remarkable win for the 30-year-old English actress, who is best known for playing the assassin Villanelle on the television show “Killing Eve.” Jodie Comer wins best leading actress in a play for ‘Prima Facie.’ 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z "I'm proud of you lot. You're my family, the men who helped me slaughter the Starks at the Red Wedding," said the young faceless assassin after serving every Frey male poisoned wine. What That Brutal Game of Thrones Opening Means for Faceless Arya Stark 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z And as soon as the sun goes down nature spends every moment of darkness scrabbling, thumping, tramping, breathing, creaking and generally impersonating every possible type of assassin. I'm being patronised. It's wonderful 2010-09-16T11:50:00Z Boothies, Mr. Alford said, led him to significant new sources, like a previously unknown statement by one of the assassin’s co-conspirators, found in the attic of someone descended from one of Booth’s lawyers. For a Biography of John Wilkes Booth, Terry Alford Turns to Amateur Researchers 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z As the erstwhile sitcom star waxed poetic about his harem of "goddesses" and nefarious "Vatican assassin warlocks," we couldn't help but seeing shades of Frank T.J. Charlie Sheen wants $10 million for tell-all memoir 2011-02-26T16:27:00Z That’s just as well: It’s hard to get lost in “Violet & Daisy,” a frequently off-putting film about two teenage assassins. ‘Violet & Daisy’ is violent & strange 2013-06-06T20:35:07Z According to a Senate report, the C.I.A. tried to use Mr. Donovan as an unwitting assassin by poisoning a diving suit he was planning to give the Cuban leader as a gift. What James Donovan Did After the Bridge of Spies 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z He is being falsely portrayed - framed - as a potential assassin. ‘Homeland,’ Season 6, Episode 11: Is Quinn Just a Natural Killer? 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z So why does John Wick, that most lethal of assassins, have so many friends? John Wick Sure Has a Lot of Friends for a Lone Assassin 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z But why shouldn't Lee continue to combine the unabashed idealism of the Corinthian enthusiast with the cold-eyed ruthlessness of the professional comedic assassin? Maggoty Lamb ponders Stewart Lee and Danny Baker's contrasting approaches to the hive mind 2011-07-25T15:37:03Z To its credit, the female assassins here aren't seeking vengeance for having been violated, or hooked on junk, or scorned by a man. Netflix's "Gunpowder Milkshake" is another dumb fun lark about women who kill 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z After that I will finish the final edits to my next book, The Reluctant Assassin, which is about an assassin who is slightly reluctant. Quickfire interview: Eoin Colfer on Doctor Who 2013-01-08T09:00:00Z And sometimes, she's not even the best at this whole assassin business. Manic pixie death girl: “Killing Eve” and the adorable assassin 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z They played gigs in virtually empty venues - most notably, they would allege, a show at the Dallas club run by Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed President Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. Levon Helm, key member of The Band, dead at age 71 2012-04-20T02:31:04Z “The people who really truly run this city, they’re watching you huff and puff and run around crusading, and they are laughing at you,” Lovecraft says, moments before assassins execute him with Gordon’s gun. 'Gotham' Recap: Gordon Plays a Rigged Game 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z In the three weeks before her husband’s murder, she spoke to the assassin, a man she barely knew, 91 times by cellphone. Books of The Times: A Murder Trial Unfolds Under a Gimlet Eye 2011-04-26T11:45:00Z In 1999's "The World Is Not Enough," it was hard to tell which plot — the assassin's or the film's — fell apart faster. A new era of secrets and spies in Hollywood 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z There’s also an assassin lurking somewhere in the grid – and revealing them results in instant, and ignominious, defeat. Let's roll: the best board games for Christmas 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z But his concerns ended when he saw Édgar Ramírez, who has played assorted assassins or revolutionaries in films including “Vantage Point,” “The Bourne Ultimatum” and “Che.” A Sweeping Tale of a Terrorist and His Time 2010-10-09T17:04:00Z He was an assassin sent by a mob boss to wreak vengeance in “Johnny Cool” in 1963. Henry Silva, Actor Who Specialized in Menace, Dies at 95 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z “As Tony often says, it’s not a place of deranged assassins,” he said. The Carpetbagger: Ben Affleck, Now an Underdog With ‘Argo,’ Is on the Rebound 2013-01-16T22:39:05Z This assassin lark is a minefield of complexities. Bullet to the Head: no one messes with Sylvester Stallone 2012-10-04T15:15:00Z Ramirez's Carlos is an alarming hybrid of revolutionary guerrillero, brutal assassin, playboy, unscrupulous mercenary and charmer with an almost magnetic charisma. 'Carlos' screens at Cannes Film Festival 2010-05-21T15:33:00Z She had been through a lot: Family slaughtered, blindness, surviving an assassin’s guild. The Associated Press picks the top moments on TV from 2019 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z “I have skills that are dormant, rusty, but not forgotten,” acknowledges the hired assassin who goes by the name Columbus in Derek Haas’s thrillers. A Politician With Real Killer Instincts 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z He finds a suitable assassin, but the terms involve Chris’s pretty younger sister being used as collateral for the job. Movies: Venice Film Festival Goes Back to the Future 2011-08-30T11:00:08Z He was eventually trained as an assassin and worked as a mercenary. Everything You Need to Know About Deadpool 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Armed with menacing zombies, dagger-wielding assassins and merciless warriors on horseback, the fantasy writer can do a singular kind of justice to the raw bewilderment and barbarism of our own times. Riff: The Bleak ?Game of Thrones? Needs More Light 2011-04-17T03:00:17Z As an employee of a Manhattan establishment that catered to traveling assassins, Charon — named after the ferryman of Hades in Greek mythology — was the soul of discretion. Watch Lance Reddick’s Best Performances 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z An independently financed action movie, which Mr. Ayer directed and helped write, “Sabotage” starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as the leader of corrupted drug enforcement agents who begin falling to an unknown assassin. ‘Fury,’ Starring Brad Pitt, a Raw Look at Warfare 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z The Film Council was abolished, then before a week had passed, its assassins were privately admitting they had made a mistake. The arts cuts: David Hare, Stephen Poliakoff, David Peace and others give their verdicts 2011-03-30T18:00:01Z Last year as Eve, an everyday MI6 operative and assassin hunter, Oh became an international celebrity. Killing it: Sandra Oh’s rise from ‘quota’ Asian to Hollywood star 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z As an observer, he’s brilliant; as an assassin, he’s hobbled. ‘The Sympathizer’: A cerebral thriller about Vietnam and its aftermath 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z And William F. Buckley later described it as a plea from Kennedy to his own assassin, “whose name neither he nor anyone else knew, but whose existence he had frequently conjectured.” Book excerpt: After MLK death, RFK 'poured his heart out' 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z It is unsettling to watch the killer from American Psycho smile at the human-vampire hybrid assassin, Blade. See a Mash Up of Movie Nightclub Scenes in 'Hell's Club' 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z The extreme weight loss — reportedly over 50 pounds — led to a kind of madness that helped him get ready for the role, as did a book breaking down the personality types of political assassins. Joaquin Phoenix discusses preparing for role in ‘Joker’ 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Arthur is, in the film's terminology, a mechanic: an assassin who carries out assignments for a nameless syndicate with a seemingly endless target list. The Mechanic Review: Can He Fix It? Well, He Can Blow It Up 2011-01-28T10:30:00Z “Although the notion of a female assassin was not unique, Luke’s take was fresh, intelligent and tonally much bolder than others,” Sally said later. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z But the same shadowy assassin who murdered Kirsch will stop at nothing to keep that from happening. Review | Attention, Tom Hanks: Dan Brown’s new novel, ‘Origin,’ is ready for you 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Jolie and Mr. Pitt met each other on the set of “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” a 2005 action movie in which they played married assassins. Angelina Jolie Details Abuse Allegations Against Brad Pitt in Countersuit 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z There was the Washington docudrama “All the President’s Men,” Francis Ford Coppola’s war nightmare “Apocalypse Now” and Warren Beatty’s chasing assassin networks in “The Parallax View.” Burt Lancaster in ‘Twilight’s Last Gleaming’ 2012-10-20T23:03:01Z If Jolie proves less than keen on the horror role, Universal may instead persuade her to reprise her role as assassin Fox, in a sequel to the 2008 comic-book hit Wanted. Universal 'wants Angelina Jolie to play Bride of Frankenstein' 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The novel follows the ageing Generalissimo through his last day on earth as his assassins circle, showing him as a grotesque character whose failing body is no bar to his preening machismo. Mario Vargas Llosa: Five essential novels 2010-10-07T15:55:00Z Because what places this globe-trotting action caper, directed by Ang Lee, just a little bit above “utterly forgettable” is the fact that Smith plays more than one assassin. ‘Gemini Man’ Review: That Assassin Looks a Lot Like Will Smith 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z But 50 years after he was gunned down by an assassin in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom, Malcolm X is getting another look. Fifty years after his death, Malcolm X speaks to the current moment 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Once the newbie assassin learns who killed his father, the question becomes: Who will off whom, and how? 'The Mechanic': Retooling a tale via body count 2011-01-26T20:22:46Z And so we also meet a deadly assassin whose day job is running a chain of vegetarian restaurants. ‘The Anomaly,’ Part Airplane Thriller and Part Exploration of Reality, Fate and Free Will 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z But as we now know from our own real-life version, the Russians are still villainous, and may not have required a complicated plot with a brainwashed assassin to undo American democracy. The Manchurian President: A classic Hollywood thriller tells us more about America than any history book 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z In it, her assassin character is poisoned on a mission in Tokyo, giving her 24 hours for revenge. New this week: ‘Kate,’ ‘Come From Away’ and MTV’s VMAs 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z I didn’t want those assassins coming back in. The Junk Removers Manhandle My Heart 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z He published more than 20 books, which ranged from lyrical accounts of the desert landscape to hard-edged investigations of political corruption, Mexican drug cartels and professional assassins. Charles Bowden, author of probing, lyrical accounts of the Southwest, dies at 69 And what if the original assassins were all part of the same sinister conspiracy? Thrillers – review roundup 2013-02-22T09:01:00Z Meanwhile, the floor teems with people in scrubs who are really undercover cops, men in suits who are lawyers, assassins or both. Review: ‘Three’ Asks, Any Mozart Aficionados in the House? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Alas, this is the sort of movie in which even an assassin in a tank top, the kind who does leg stretches before a hit, comes across as an afterthought. In 'The November Man,' Killing Is Political and Personal 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Because the other thing that everyone seems sure of, apart from the fact that it was Israeli intelligence agents whodunnit, is that none of the assassins will ever be caught. Blood and Oil and Panorama: Passports to Kill | TV review 2010-03-30T05:45:00Z Proponents of lighting replacement “are assassins of the beauty of Rome, of its history.” Perspective | The new lighting in Metro is like sitting in a Xerox machine. And it’s driving us crazy. 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z A swarm of photographers descended, and the assassins scattered. 2010-02-06T07:20:00Z Just replace "ninjas" with "killer monks, mechanical bees, a deceptively mild-mannered elderly assassin, a Genghis-Khan-like fiend, a deeply sinister government agency, and a clock repairman who starts channeling his gangster father." 'Angelmaker': A clock repairman tries to stop the world's end 2012-03-14T19:55:04Z Eventually, he sends the children on assignment as assassins. Review: ‘Partisan,’ Training Assassins Without a Cause 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The star of the marital murder mystery "Gone Girl" and the superhero showdown "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" may next portray an accountant by day and assassin by night. Ben Affleck eyes action-thriller 'The Accountant' for next role 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The Chinese star shot to global fame in 2000 in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” as a vaulting, leaping, airborne assassin with a disarmingly delicate physique. These 18 movie stars are also amazing dancers. That’s their real superpower. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z I was just not in the mood for any show about a repentant assassin, however much I love the main actor. My Not-Top-Ten Television List, 2018 Edition 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The company also teased such forthcoming games as the stylish assassin sequel "Dishonored 2," arena-based shooter "Quake Champions" and alien abduction tale "Prey," as well as updates for "Doom" and "Fallout 4." 'Fallout 4,' 'Doom' games coming to virtual reality 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z "Looper," directed by Rian Johnson and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis as a time-traveling assassin assigned to kill his future self, was one of 62 titles announced by the festival on Tuesday. Toronto film festival promises action, India, Affleck 2012-07-24T19:05:28Z The film features actress Zoe Saldana as a woman who witnesses her parents' murder as a child in Bogota and grows up to be an assassin seeking revenge. "The Help" holds on at top of storm-hit box office 2011-08-29T15:05:12Z In an effort to lure the assassin away from their family and friends, Cat and Vincent pretend to elope. TV listings: Thursday, July 23, 2015 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Ellen Page and the “Game of Thrones” actor Tom Hopper lead the ensemble, playing estranged superhero siblings who are reunited — and are subsequently attacked by a group of assassins — after their adoptive father figure dies. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Desus & Mero’ and ‘School Daze’ 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Set in contemporary Seoul, “The Plotters” delivers a vivid portrait of a mesmerizing central character, a stoic orphan named Reseng who becomes an assassin for hire. The best thrillers and mysteries of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Women assassins, women mad scientists: There seems to be a thematic undercurrent of girl power and the strength of women, which is often systematically subdued or controlled by men, but it feels superficial. ‘Black Widow’ Review: Spies, Lies and Family Ties 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z Between rebels and rulers, it’s clear where her sympathies lie: Royals are mythic, but it’s their assassins whom she loves. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z A relentless assassin who claws a microchip out of her chest with her fingernails. 5 New International Series Visit 5 Far-Flung Crime Scenes 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z This secret organisation of assassins is highly trained and magically able to change their appearance at will. CJ Daugherty's top 10 secret society books 2013-01-10T14:58:14Z A charming hedonist becomes an unlikely would-be assassin in “13 Minutes,” a respectful but labored biopic of a village carpenter whose 1939 plot to blow up the Führer was foiled by bad timing. Review: From Wooing Women to Plotting Hitler’s Murder in ‘13 Minutes’ 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Its portrait of Berlin, and everyone around him except his sainted wife Ellin, is so sour and clammy that you might think it was written by a character assassin instead of a hagiographer. Review: Puttin’ on the Pathos in a Tribute to Irving Berlin 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z A good assassin is quick, patient, ruthless and invisible. In This Debut Novel, a Chinese American Assassin Roams the West 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z But to help him survive the potentially hostile planet, he needs the help of the assassin droid IG-11, which sacrificed itself to save him and his cohorts back in Season 1. ‘The Mandalorian’ Season 3 Premiere Recap: Together Again 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z It's an interesting film, beautifully shot by cinematographer Martin Ruhe, but not many thrills and spills and not much new to say about the figure of the lonely assassin. The American ? review 2010-10-15T22:00:00Z He played an assassin in “Road to Perdition,” and a terrible villain as one of the several characters he played in “Cloud Atlas.” This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Witnesses promptly subdued the assassin and, weeks later, Tehlirian was on trial for murder. Eric Bogosian's 'Operation Nemesis' chases Turkish perpetrators 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z An Earthling, an alien warrior, an alien assassin, a raccoon and a tree monster walk into a summer blockbuster in James Gunn's 2014 smash "Guardians of the Galaxy." TV This Week April 26 - May2: 'Guardians of the Galaxy' on Starz 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The fallout for Kate proves worse than a mere breach of assassin’s creed. ‘Kate’ Review: Lost in Assassination 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z In the film, Pitt and Jolie play married assassins assigned to kill each other. Burning questions about the Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt lawsuit 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z The movie stars Jason Statham, Robert De Niro and Clive Owen as special-ops assassins caught up in a global revenge scheme. 'Lion King' chases off Brad Pitt to remain No. 1 2011-09-25T17:29:08Z “A raucous extravaganza of assassins and lunatics,” Charles Finch said here. New in Paperback: ‘The Parisian’ and ‘Black Moses’ 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z When Cory needs to assert control over his corner of the universe, he commands a room full of underlings to think less like suits and more like trained assassins. In this exclusive clip from "The Morning Show," Billy Crudup's network CEO loses his grip 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Ah the perks of a former assassin, but this may be Miranda's last ride. "The Flight Attendant:" Don't mace Brenda 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Even as a rogue agent, Nikita keeps running, The Man keeps chasing, and the baby assassins keep practicing their roundhouse kicks. Best new fall TV: "Nikita" 2010-09-04T23:01:00Z His assassins acted in hopes of saving the czar — and themselves — but the conspiracy backfired. ‘Rasputin’ Unravels the Myths of the ‘Mad Monk’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Because the first thing you want to do when you’ve finally begun to forget about that terrible job you once took as a logistics technician for a nefarious secret government assassin programme is hack them. Five things we learned from the debut trailer for Jason Bourne 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z In the film, Affleck plays a bright accountant who works as an assassin on the side. Ben Affleck's 'The Accountant' Gets Jan. 29 Release 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z The would-be assassins are waylaid when Skylark finds in Kim a kindred spirit. The Interview Review: Much Less Compelling Than the Events It Inspired 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Grace, who got pulled from the military into a new, possibly even more dangerous vocation as a spy/assassin was recruited by Dot, who she met while in the service. "The Flight Attendant" recap: Dapper death 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z He is a lonely, courtly fellow, played with weary ease by James Gandolfini, who bakes cookies for his would-be assassins and engages Daisy’s sympathy when he speaks of his estranged daughter. Movie Review: ‘Violet & Daisy,’ by Geoffrey Fletcher 2013-06-07T01:36:07Z “The Interview,” set to premiere in the United States this October, is about two celebrity journalists who land an interview with Kim, which prompts the CIA to recruit the two as assassins. North Korea: Rogen, Franco film shows ‘desperation’ of American society 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z It was then that Hinckley, the assassin, crouched and fired – six shots flashing out in a couple of seconds. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z The book also gives us an assassin who’s after Duncan, and who visits Ford’s Theater while she’s waiting to take her shot. Bill Clinton and James Patterson Team Up to Imagine a True Fantasy: Sane Politics 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z And then the actual movie I came to see, “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol,” began, and there was Sawyer from “Lost,” walking briskly through a train terminal before being taken down by an assassin’s bullet. Riff: Why Is That Nice Girl From ?Friday Night Lights? Fighting a Bunch of Ninjas? 2012-03-09T19:22:00Z In fact, Ashby is something even more exotic: a retired C.I.A. assassin who by his own account killed 93 people in the line of duty. Review: ‘Ashby’ Pairs a Retired C.I.A. Killer With a High School Nerd 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/PARAMOUNT Such figures commit assassination by mistake, or are condemned as assassins when they are innocent or, most strongly, have been brainwashed into becoming killers. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z When Latil refuses to be an assassin, a quarrel develops, the hunchback’s three companions join the fray and the swordsman is left for dead. Newly translated, a sequel to ‘The Three Musketeers’ is as fresh as ever 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The young Stark is crossing the Narrow Sea in search of the Faceless Men, a monastic order of assassins. 'Game of Thrones' Season 5: A Primer 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z That memorable scene introduces a plot that takes this self-exiled assassin to the Pacific Northwest to protect a software inventor named Matthew Boone from being eliminated by persons or governments unknown. A Politician With Real Killer Instincts 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z The automatic assassin was one free of responsibility. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z Nothing is off limits as Nick Ferrari and his band of fellow assassins, LBC 97.3's loyal London listeners, attempt to expose every pound spent, every promise made, and I say: 'Quite right.' Boris Johnson to host talkshow on LBC once a month 2013-06-12T20:02:36Z When he rode out of the state to Washington in 1861, he was tailed by secessionist assassins who wanted him dead. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z This divisive two-parter ignored the lure of conspiracies to present JFK’s assassin as a lone gunman. When good TV goes bad: how Quantum Leap made one leap too far 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Does he ever get to be more than a would-be assassin? He shot George Wallace to be famous. Now he lives in silence. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z But, first, there’s a shogun’s would-be assassin, as well as a few other evildoers, for Sano to track down. Book review: ‘The Iris Fan,’ a thriller by Laura Joh Rowland 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z But Charyn restricts himself to the decades before an assassin killed President William McKinley and thrust Vice President Roosevelt into the White House. Review | Teddy Roosevelt and his pet cougar leap into action 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z His Butler strikes firmly and frets darkly, set upon by assassins in the city, opponents in Washington and critics in the capitals of Europe. ‘Secessia’ is Kent Wascom’s vivid portrait of 1862 New Orleans 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z The crime of the week involved an assassin whose weapon of choice was a sort of steampunk flute with a blade hidden inside. 'Gotham' Recap: Land Deals and Flutes of Death 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Politicians in trouble, recovering assassins, her own kidnapper while trying to leverage an online bidding war for her freedom. Kerry Washington on 'Scandal,' Shonda and Raising Baby Isabelle 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z The existential anxiety of the paid assassin is a tricky theme — so tricky as to be potentially invalid, even. ‘The Virtuoso’ Review: A Paid Killer, Hitting Bum Notes 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z He was killed two years earlier, after an assassin followed him and a journalist with dirt on BioPrime to a secret location where they were meeting. The shock twist in “Sweet Girl” subverts the typical masculine revenge thriller — with a catch 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z I recently got a package in the mail, a gift from America’s most famous assassin. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: This hot sauce is a killer 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The assassins feel alone, alienated by sadness, unrequited love, their failures. “Assassins” is Stephen Sondheim's killer musical that we don’t talk about 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z But first, King would travel to Memphis, where an assassin’s bullet took his life. The forgotten dream of Martin Luther King Jr. 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z So when I dreamed up the idea of a fiction series based around a female assassin, a project that might tie me up for years, I hesitated. Killing Eve: how my psycho killer was brought to life 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z As Parco, Bratt employs the charisma he wields as a protagonist the way an assassin might secret a blade in a shirt sleeve. A Second Civil War and too many plotholes plague "DMZ," HBO Max's latest dystopian adaptation 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z It stars Will Smith as a government assassin who discovers his former mentor cloned him. Ang Lee has a new religion in digital. Will anyone follow? 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z A pod of orcas slices menacingly through Antarctic waves like so many silent assassins. With the Netflix Series “Our Planet,” David Attenborough Delivers an Urgent Message 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Crouching Tiger meets Mr & Mrs Smith in a period tale of assassin rivalry, with more than just balletic combat to offer. This week's new films 2013-02-16T06:00:16Z And she also shared the harrowing tale of the terrible night in 1999 when she and George nearly lost their lives to a would-be assassin. In Olivia Harrison's elegant "Came the Lightening," poems on her life, and husband George Harrison 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z So they call in the fox assassin, who does just that, with his Day-of-the-Jackal rifle, from an upstairs window. TV Review: Who Do You Think You Are? Brooke Shields and Urban Fox Attack 2010-07-05T05:45:00Z The producers may well have been tempted to turn at least one Bureau member into a rogue assassin or some such. No adjustments needed for 'Bureau' 2011-03-03T14:55:00Z Which is to say, the order’s “facelessness,” an objectively awesome assassin’s gimmick, would seem to refer equally to a spiritual abandonment of the self. 'Game of Thrones' Recap: Cobragrams and Faceless Men 2015-04-19T04:00:00Z Through their contract, she ends up meeting a rival assassin in Michael Keaton and really ends up being faced with a mirror that she never thought existed. Maggie Q returns to action with "The Protégé" despite an injury: "Everyone around me was terrified" 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z He soon finds himself fleeing mysterious assassins, local police and even agents of the US government in the company of doctor Sienna Brooks as it appears all are gunning for his life. Tom Hanks and Ron Howard reunite for third Dan Brown movie 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Now he is a bestselling author and his latest novel The Hit follows the story of an assassin hired by the US government. VIDEO: Baldacci admits 'fudging facts' 2013-04-17T10:51:55Z It also knocks down the theory, embraced by some Boothies but few professional scholars, that the assassin had support from the Confederate government’s leaders. For a Biography of John Wilkes Booth, Terry Alford Turns to Amateur Researchers 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z But Sally is still the same self-involved spotlight hunter that Bill Hader's assassin Barry met in the first season, when he's immediately struck by her talent for making fake emotions seem real. "Barry" star Sarah Goldberg loves playing her unlikable role: "Make her a monster. I'm all for it" 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z You and the Australian assassins who were added to this movie to make it more dramatic. The Other Guys: the naked motherflippin' city 2011-01-25T13:18:33Z Kill Local A woman and her two daughters work as professional assassins in Mat Smart’s world-premiere dark comedy. The week ahead in L.A. theater, July 30-Aug. 6: 'The Two Gentlemen of Verona' and more 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z It is Smith’s dementedly serene Guiteau, assassin of James Garfield, though, who most exhilaratingly embodies the show’s ethos, revealed in equal parts gun smoke and madness. Review | Insanity thrives, giddily, in Signature’s ‘Assassins’ 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The photogenic qualities of the assassin soothed most of our moral concerns. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z Behind the tinted windows sat a queen, a witch, a knight, a wardeness, a budding maester, a young assassin, a court advisor, a captain, a captive and some of their family and staff. At Comic-Con, managing 'Game of Thrones' cast is an epic in itself 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z The Great War – or World War I, as it would come to be called — was triggered one hundred years ago this month when an assassin shot and killed Austria’s Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo. What America can learn from “Lawrence of Arabia” about Iraq 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z The chapters alternate between Mr. Rabin’s tortuous attempts to negotiate a peace agreement of mind-boggling significance and the machinations of an assassin whose sole aim was to thwart it. Review: ‘Killing the King,’ on the Murder That Claimed a Peace Process 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Then the second breakthrough: Doug Liman's comedy thriller Mr and Mrs Smith in 2005, with Jolie and Pitt playing professional assassins who learn that their next assignment is to kill each other. Angelina Jolie: Hollywood won't be the same without her 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Barry is a very good assassin who wants to be an actor and, initially, isn’t a good one. The actor behind ‘Barry’s’ NoHo Hank, TV’s happiest mobster 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The vision of an assassin in a Tony Blair mask will live long in the memory, but it won't be as hard to forget as Warren in a pair of budgie smugglers. Rewind TV: The Promise; Mad Dogs; Outcasts ? review 2011-02-13T00:05:33Z Efficient assassin Delores is a lot more fun than the glitchy programmed damsel of Season 1, and the grim authoritarian would-be deity of Season 2. "Westworld" rides towards its manifest destiny, this time in a straighter line 2020-03-15T04:00:00Z When it comes to comedy, Bryant said, “She is a quiet, smiling assassin.” In ‘I Love That for You,’ Vanessa Bayer Sells Out 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z I am conscious of every rise and fall of the assassin’s breath. Book Excerpt: ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’ 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Both are painfully bad fits for their respective families and social circles; both struggle against not just assassins but bullying, emotional neglect and the crushing expectations of society. The Latest in Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z He gets a pie in the face from a “pastry assassin” who travels with a crew of paparazzi. Robert Pattinson and Director David Cronenberg on Cars, Cosmopolis and Fans Who Care 2012-08-14T20:48:47Z He represents The Table, and he thinks he is the best assassin. "That was an epic moment":"John Wick 4" martial artist on that traffic battle and honoring Bruce Lee 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z She's a member of the Dark Stone assassins and, like many hit persons, decides to go straight. Reign of Assassins – review 2013-02-17T00:05:35Z They play scientists, chanteuses, international assassins, 18th-century seductresses and also actresses appearing in the film “The Spider,” which is and is not a parody and a companion piece to “La Flor.” ‘La Flor’ Review: Four Women in Search of a Movie 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The active malevolence of two assassins is dwarfed by the passive lethality of a wildfire in this thriller from the writer-director Taylor Sheridan. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Home Sweet Home’ and ‘Succession’ 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z There are two clear traditions for representing such killers; in both cases, the power of the films involved depends on a moral ambiguity that lets us identify with the assassin even as we question them. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z “Czar Alexander II was riding down this road when the assassins struck,” she said. Condoleezza Rice on the 10 Days Still Shaking the World 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z He also interviews the Sikh son of the assassin of Indira Gandhi. 'India: A Portrait': Patrick French's new history of India since 1947 2011-07-27T19:39:04Z The real Garfield — James A. Garfield — was a U.S. president killed by an assassin, 16 years after the shooting of Abraham Lincoln. 'Destiny of the Republic': The death of James A. Garfield 2011-11-17T00:26:04Z Tony Gilroy, a writer on the first three "Bourne" films and writer-director of this latest installment, spent countless hours immersed in military and intelligence research to tell the story of CIA assassin Jason Bourne. `Bourne' writer-director Gilroy taps real science 2012-08-09T16:36:07Z He may be no fan of cell phones, but he's a master craftsman, recycling used auto parts to build a sound suppressor for the assassin's rifle. "The American": George Clooney's killer trip through Italy 2010-09-01T15:02:00Z What people remember best about this one is the music and dancing, so how about instead of assassins the Jules and Vincent characters are coaching an a cappella team? Remaking Memento, the Mummy and more: a Hollywood insider reveals all 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Now Fisk's Joint Terrorism Task Force is back on high alert as an elusive assassin heads to Manhattan for United Nations Week, when the world's most powerful leaders will be gathered -- and vulnerable. A new novel from Dick Wolf joins his TV empire 2014-01-14T14:28:40Z This is easy for 47, a genetically engineered assassin whose “subdermal titanium body armor” repels weapons and whose nonexistent emotions repulse any concern for his welfare. Review: Rupert Friend and Zachary Quinto in a Pas de Bullets, ‘Hitman: Agent 47’ 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Will Smith could only attend through video message to tease Ang Lee’s “Gemini Man,” an action film about an assassin facing an operative who “can predict his every move.” Paramount brings ‘Rocketman,’ new ‘Terminator’ to CinemaCon 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Gold then softens the transition from real life to drama by having Michael Patrick Thornton, who otherwise plays Lennox and one of the assassins, deliver an amusingly potted prologue like a Catskills tummler. Review: In a New ‘Macbeth,’ Something Wonky This Way Comes 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z In her capacity as a psychologist, though, making people assassins isn’t necessarily the same as making them healthier human beings, and that’s one inherent problem with her work that the show hasn’t fully exploited yet. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 11: The Doctor Is In 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Like many of us who are not trained assassins, Barry wants to believe he can make moral compromises while telling himself, “This is not who I am.” Review: In ‘Barry,’ This Actor Slays Them, Offstage 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Villanelle, an elegant assassin excelled in her profession by being invisible; Eve's invisibility as a pencil pusher at MI5 made it easy for her peers to ignore her. "Killing Eve" is back and misses its calling, despite faint echoes of its past seduction 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z Produced in a white heat just hours after she learned of the Evers shooting, it’s a first-person narrative set inside the assassin’s mind. The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z She hates Thatcher as much as the assassin does, and they engage in a spirited dialogue about whether Irish ancestry counts as serious political commitment or if that’s just malarkey. ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,’ by Hilary Mantel 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z By the end of the Season 5 finale, which aired Monday, he had survived the crew of assassins dispatched to his home in Mexico by his arch nemesis and drug-trade rival, Gus Fring. Tony Dalton Talks ‘Better Call Saul’: Sympathy for el Diablo 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z Fellow stage assassins Run the Jewels make for cool, unlikely tourmates. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for March 2018 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z But before she found stardom in action roles — including indigenous hunter Neytiri in “Avatar” and its forthcoming sequels, and the acrobatic assassins in “The Losers” and “Colombiana” — she’d spent her childhood in ballet classes. These 18 movie stars are also amazing dancers. That’s their real superpower. 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z Still, Mr. Holzer summed up the lingering aversion to spending too much time focusing on the assassin. For a Biography of John Wilkes Booth, Terry Alford Turns to Amateur Researchers 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z A fellow of infinite jest and imaginative daring, Malzberg can convincingly take us into the minds of both a lovesick man who wants to marry a beagle and the would-be assassin of JFK. Review | Grab some candy corn and sit down with these Halloween-perfect story collections 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z He made a joke about being paranoid about Cosby-hired assassins, then dropped the subject. Hannibal Buress Evolves From Cult Star to Showman 2015-02-09T05:00:00Z Despite having just had a hole punched in his skull and half of his brain perforated, Trotsky — a survivor of Siberia — knocked down, subdued and disarmed his assassin. Books of The Times: ‘The Man Who Loved Dogs’ Centers on Trotsky 2014-01-21T22:09:20Z Who is the mysterious assassin, "Tiny Blair" in the climactic close of the episode. Is Mad Dogs barking up the right tree? 2011-02-17T12:56:10Z His character, Nels Coxman, is not a globe-trotting assassin with a highly specialized set of skills, but rather a humble Colorado snowplow driver. ‘Cold Pursuit’ Review: Liam Neeson Is a Killer Snowplow Driver 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Before Columbine christened a new era of adolescent assassins, before reality television became a cultural mainstay, before MTV’s teen moms filled the glossies with their latest sex tapes. My teenage wasteland: The kid from “Kids” who took my naivete and trampled it with sex 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z In Antiviral, restaurants serve steaks cultivated from A-list muscle tissue – while his new psychological horror, Possessor, features assassins who inhabit people’s bodies via neural implants, then use them as puppets to carry out hits. Brandon Cronenberg on gougings, knifings and pokerings: 'CGI is too floaty and unreal' 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z “In the ‘Bourne’ movie, I played this intense assassin,” she added. In the peak TV era, it might be time to banish the ‘character actor’ label 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z I don't care who delivers the final blow, though Arya as the assassin would be fantastic. How will "Game of Thrones" end? Fans on Salon's staff have theories 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z Will the Duke of Gloucester be re-envisioned as a bloody-minded assassin like the bloody-minded Villanelle of “Killing Eve?” Review: An All-Female ‘Richard III’ Makes for an Evening of Discontent 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z In some poems, the assassin of the title is that most prolific killer of all, time itself. Sonnets That Reckon With Donald Trump’s America 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z He gave Mr. Rockwell his breakthrough role, in “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” in which Chuck Barris, the creator of “The Gong Show,” claimed to be a C.I.A. assassin. Sam Rockwell, Screendom’s Slinkiest Rogue 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Binet manages to swallow his doubts and get the story on paper: the frantic chaos of the assassination, the tense manhunt for the assassins, the unbearably sad, violent denouement, the Nazis’ disastrous reprisals. Assassination Fascination: A Review of Laurent Binet's Prize-Winning HHhH 2012-04-25T10:45:49Z “Visually, she goes from being a dancer to being an assassin and all of those ribbons become the blood,” Schmidt Hissrich pointed out. Take a Look at the Inspirations Behind ‘The Witcher’ 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z In the opening seconds of the British series “Hit & Miss,” a hooded assassin is revealed as a beautiful woman, which is a pretty familiar story by now. Television Review: ‘Hit & Miss,’ With Chloë Sevigny, on DirecTV 2012-07-10T22:31:12Z Which leads to the Manchurian angle: Sirhan, according to this theory, was acting under hypnosis, had been brainwashed and was merely a patsy — albeit a potentially deadly one — to draw attention from the actual assassin. What is it like to be the brother of Robert Kennedy’s assassin? The life of the other Sirhan. 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z There’s Natasha puttering around while in hiding, some muddled exposition and the introduction of a helmeted assassin who looks like a Mandalorian cosplayer. ‘Black Widow’ Review: Spies, Lies and Family Ties 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z But during a party celebrating the birth of Marcus’s new grandson, Mike gets shot, and the detectives team up for one last mission to track down the assassin. What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Walking Dead’ and the Latin Grammy Awards 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z We also saw Sally shake up the show, ending what had become a toxic relationship with Barry, the assassin protagonist played by Bill Hader. On ‘Barry,’ Sarah Goldberg Has Learned to Love TV 2022-05-15T04:00:00Z Or worst of all: the terrible winter's night in December 1980 when John Lennon was felled by an assassin. Badfinger's Pete Ham: "Misunderstood" 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z In such films, history gets rerun as an image, and so doubles our nagging worry that, in the minds of the assassins, an image is perhaps all an assassination ever was. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z This intrigue handily folds into Ji’s personal mission to find the assassin who killed his wife and took his young daughter. ‘The Suspect’: South Korean spy thriller fires up popcorn fun 2014-01-09T21:23:43Z If one hero is a vigilante on the run for protecting his assassin best friend, and one hero is pro-government but made his money selling guns for warfare, who has the moral high ground? The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z The clash ended poorly for the assassins — Lalo killed them all — and very well for Tony Dalton, who has turned Lalo into the sort of irresistible rascal you hate yourself for loving. Tony Dalton Talks ‘Better Call Saul’: Sympathy for el Diablo 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z The film is an adaptation of Mr. Barris’s 1984 memoir of that name, in which he said he moonlighted as an assassin for the Central Intelligence Agency while chaperoning couples from “The Dating Game.” Jim Lange, Genial Host of ‘Dating Game,’ Dies at 81 2014-02-28T04:17:53Z “That was so, so weird,” he said afterward, still giddy after singing with Cerveris, who played the role of Lincoln’s assassin on Broadway in 2004. A two-time Tony Award winner headlines Signature Theatre’s annual gala 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Executive producer Bridget Carpenter told how the show shot in Dealey Plaza in Dallas and in assassin Lee Harvey Oswald’s apartment building. Watch the Intense First Trailer for J.J. Abrams New Time-Travel Series 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z Thus a simple, murderous “What if?” from the author becomes a work of displaced animosity connecting an innocent woman minding her own business at home with a wish-fulfilling assassin for the Irish Republican Army. ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,’ by Hilary Mantel 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Lucky for him, a professional assassin known as Kale is also on his way to Brussels, on assignment to eliminate a high-ranking British diplomat. Philip Kerr’s Last Novel and a New Series From Alexander McCall Smith 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Their eyes brim with a fathomless unease, as if they believed assassins were waiting for them around the corner. ‘A Delicate Balance’ Revival Stars Lithgow and Close 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The film then flashes back precisely 16 hours, where we discover that this once-feared gangland assassin nicknamed "Jimmy the Gravedigger" is a bedraggled alcoholic taunted by Det. In fast-paced 'Run All Night,' Liam Neeson and Ed Harris shine 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z And talk about gritty: What could be more hard-core drama than a reptilian assassin who disables Bill but refuses to kill him because he wasn’t paid enough? ‘The History of Future Folk’: a goofy, charming space jam 2013-07-11T21:21:09Z The assassin he hires is an extremely self-aware Walton Goggins, spectacularly out-Gogginsing himself as a man with his own reasons for wanting Santa dead. Fatman: the Mel Gibson Santa action comedy we really don't need right now 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Miami was ill-equipped to handle that inundation of both petty thieves and assassins, people for hire. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Miami During the Cocaine Boom 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z She’d grabbed an old service pistol of her late husband’s and shot back through the door, scaring off the surviving assassins. True Hollywood story: The producer and the Black Panther 2012-06-09T19:00:00Z A group of assassins is programmed through “transformations” in their brain chemistry to carry out the hits. Review | ‘Last Instructions’ echoes ‘The Manchurian Candidate’ — with a modern twist 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z Finally the assassins were trapped in a church basement, which the Nazis flooded in an attempt to either drown them or force them out. Assassination Fascination: A Review of Laurent Binet's Prize-Winning HHhH 2012-04-25T10:45:49Z He was dubbed a “cold-blooded game show assassin” who was holding the show “hostage.” Ken Jennings talks James Holzhauer ‘feud,’ Brad Rutter’s losses and that brutal Bloomberg tweet 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z And routines by the card assassin Ricky Jay — that watermelon! — bear watching on repeat. Is the Hand Quicker Than the Zoom Window? 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z As Seoul’s assassins start picking one another off in an internecine war, Reseng graduates from potential victim to active target. Review | ‘The Plotters’ is a chilling portrait of a killer for hire 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z He is also possibly a highly trained military operative/assassin. Four High-Octane New Thrillers 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z In a professional assassin, a soft heart is a soft spot, a weakness his enemies can exploit. Michael Shannon in The Iceman: A Stone-Cold Killer 2013-05-02T09:45:59Z They’re both fallen themselves — Black a disgraced cop, Spiegel a former assassin for a brutal crime ring known as the Syndicate. Review: ‘Cowboy Bebop,’ Minus the Art 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z It’s an enigmatic drama about a young female assassin’s attempt to restore order after a kill gone wrong. Cannes 2015: all the winners - live! 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z The central gimmick of new movie Killers Anonymous is an AA-style support group where various underworld assassins come to “share”. Killers Anonymous: Has the Hollywood hitman had its day? 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z If the queen won, she picked who went home; if the assassin won, it was a group decision. What we can learn from "Drag Race All Stars 7" and the magic of anxiety-free reality competition 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z Frederick Forsyth sends a fictionalized assassin after Charles de Gaulle, and we trust him not to play fast and loose with documented history. Trump is stranger than fiction: John Altman on writing thrillers today 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Sheen called into Wired 96.5 on Thursday evening, comparing the station to "Vatican assassins" hours after the station flew a heart-emblazoned banner over his home. Sheen: Philly radio station 'Vatican assassins' 2011-03-04T17:59:08Z But it reminded us, in the most memorable moment of the Battle of Winterfell, that it does its best work when it slips in the blade like an assassin. Was ‘Game of Thrones’ Too Dark on Sunday? Yes and No 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z One thing is certain, gangsters, Jedi, assassins and cyborgs don’t meet without an extensive arsenal. See a Mash Up of Movie Nightclub Scenes in 'Hell's Club' 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Violence followed him: an hour after Mr. Zakariya ate chicken curry at a restaurant in the provincial seat of Narathiwat, a mechanic was killed by assassins a few blocks away. A Poet's Return Home to Thailand's Violent South 2010-10-20T16:28:00Z Quarry, the Marine sniper turned professional assassin who made his first fictional appearance in 1976, is pushing 70 and ready to retire — after one last job, that is. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z A hardened Chinese American assassin roams the West in search of the men who nearly beat him to death, took his wife and conscripted him to work on the railroads. New in Paperback: Dana Spiotta and Juan Gonzalez 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z One, “Au Revoir, Crazy European Chick,” is about a high school student whose family hosts an exchange student who turns out to be an assassin. Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage Make Films for Paramount 2012-02-01T23:10:23Z A surreal musical revue featuring assassins and assassin wannabes from the pages of history, the enterprise is buoyed by Sondheim’s typically transcendent music. Ambitious 'Assassins' at Pico Playhouse can't overcome the show's peculiarities 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z Villanelle, the anti heroine, is a ruthless, blood-lusty assassin, who revels in the act of murder. From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy, why are dead women’s bodies still being used as entertainment? 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z There's a race against the clock, an assassin called Gin Rummy and courtroom scenes that won't have you getting up to make a cup of tea. Crime fiction roundup - review 2012-12-21T08:00:01Z Rigoletto, a hunchbacked jester at the court of the Duke of Mantua, is approached at night by a mysterious man who says he’s an assassin for hire, should Rigoletto ever need such services. Familiar Operas Are Stunningly Fresh in English 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z And the assassin persona is, well, less concerned with the historical basis of double consciousness. Critic’s Notebook: Assassin’s Creed: Liberation Examines Colonial Blacks 2014-01-27T22:50:06Z Holmes leave Watson and Simza the little task of unmasking a would-be assassin and saving Europe at a Swiss summit meeting, while he plays chess with Moriarty on a terrace overlooking the Reichenbach Falls. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows: Frenzied With Benefits 2011-12-15T16:58:57Z Before Rick, Morty and the rest of the Smith family can rise from the table, squid-like assassins burst into the room and murder them all. How "Rick and Morty" and "Loki" built thoughtful altars to apathy for everything we hold dear 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z And let's not even mention Monday's episode, in which the crew had to stop a beautiful Russian assassin from killing, or fake-kiling, her dumber-than-spit husband. "Human Target": How Fox's stellar action show went horribly wrong 2011-02-02T15:03:00Z Or Cushendun, the rocky beach where, later in that season, the priestess Melisandre gives birth in a cave to a supernatural assassin. Following ‘Game of Thrones’ to Belfast and Beyond 2013-07-05T17:34:29Z The remainder are still under police investigation and are widely attributed to vigilantes, some of which activists believe are hired assassins working for the authorities. James Taylor cancels Manila concert to protest Philippines drug killings 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z I got it pulled and then the pandemic hit before I could get an implant, and then there were stories that in a pandemic dentists are more dangerous than Russian umbrella-stab political assassins. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: I’m not a doctor, but I play one at home 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Bridges plays ex-CIA operative Dan Chase, a man who managed to disappear for decades until an assassin shows up at his door. Jeff Bridges on the Dude, making "The Old Man" and the experience of "dancing with my mortality" 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z "Barry" takes everything that should be cool and certain about these people and professions, as in assassins and actors, and makes it awkward, droll and mortally sad. "Barry" returns three years later and is funnier and darker than ever 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z The exact space where the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, sat remains off-limits behind glass. The Museums Times Reporters Like to Visit on Their Days Off 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Yet in the permanent fantasy land of popular entertainment, this assassin gave the traditional action hero modern attitudes and equipment. The James Bond Films at 50: A Golden Franchise for the Ages 2012-10-05T12:00:58Z The regime functions with such inscrutability that even its own assassins never wholly comprehend their orders: “They muttered about it day and night. Why were some so cosseted, while others got it in the neck?” Review | A fierce masterpiece by Albania’s most eminent novelist, Ismail Kadare 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z The return of assassin recruitment is welcomed and is executed better than in previous games. Game On: 'Revelations' ends well; 'Lord of the Rings' lacks thrills 2011-11-25T18:42:03Z Ms. Condor, 21, who wields a sword as a teenage assassin in the new Syfy action series “Deadly Class,” is an enthusiastic home cook. Lana Condor of ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’ Learns How to Make Sushi 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z I gave it up when I realized that in return for the labor of truly learning Go, I would become not an enlightened international assassin, but just a guy who could play a game. It’s Just a Game. Or Is It? 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z In A Bullet for the General, Bill Tate, the mysterious American, turns out to be a paid assassin, hired by the authorities to murder a revolutionary general. Damiano Damiani obituary 2013-03-10T13:15:01Z After shaving her head to portray a military commander in Mad Max: Fury Road, Charlize Theron is currently in talks to play an assassin in The Gray Man, a role previously offered to Brad Pitt. Women Flip the Script on Hollywood 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z It concerns an assassin who wakes to find himself floating through space in a suit that is running out of air, fitted with a computer designed to keep him company until he expires. Cary Fukunaga to direct sci-fi thriller Speechless 2011-08-02T15:08:10Z Since then, even government investigators have stepped away from the lone assassin theory. 50 years on, finding profit in `truth' on JFK case 2013-05-11T16:07:15Z The bass John Relyea, a Met regular, dug into the role of the assassin Sparafucile with his gargoyle of a voice — a dark, threatening gnarl of sound. Review: At the Met Opera, a Tenor Arrives in ‘Rigoletto’ 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Simu Liu plays the title character, a martial arts master trained to be an assassin by the villainous Ten Rings organization. Watch the first trailer for "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings" 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z Kill Local World premiere of Mat Smart’s dark comedy about about a woman and her two daughters who work as professional assassins. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Aug. 6-13: 'Hamlet,' 'Marlene' and more 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z The culprit, in this regard, is no deranged assassin. Theater Review: Steven Soderbergh Directs ‘The Library,’ at the Public 2014-04-16T02:00:01Z Aunt Lydia is a mercurial assassin: a pious leader, a ruthless administrator, a deliciously acerbic confessor. Review | Praise be: Margaret Atwood has published a sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z When the assassin enters Gildong’s study, he inexplicably finds himself in an immense landscape of rocks, pine trees and mountains. Michael Dirda reviews Korea’s version of ‘Robin Hood’ 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Harrelson, on the other hand, does little with the role of the unflappable super assassin, playing put-upon straight man to Hart’s over-the-top jester without much chemistry. ‘The Man From Toronto’ Review: Not So Clearly Canadian 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z The first season of this spy vs. assassin series ended with a stab to the gut. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Killing Eve’ and ‘The Chi’ 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z One of the "assassins" in the musical is the late Samuel Beck, who plotted to fly a hijacked plane into the White House to kill Richard Nixon. Sondheim Assassins revival hits the mark in London 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z As Stan keeps her safe from KGB assassins, he grows increasingly suspicious about her motives. 'The Americans' recap: Teen party girl could be a KGB asset 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Perhaps the assassin will get back to his book roots in a potential fourth movie. John Wick has a surprising hobby that got cut from the movies, Keanu Reeves says 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z After her would-be assassin's automatic pistol jams she escapes unharmed. Spiral III: The Butcher of La Villette - episodes one and two 2011-04-02T21:50:00Z The novel follows the story of Eli and Charlie Sisters, notorious assassins, as they journey to San Francisco, on a mission to kill a man. The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt - review 2012-11-29T15:00:00Z Later, as those assassins plotted, their crime was sternly echoed in the resonance and unanimity of the evocative combination of harp and plucked double basses. Review: Before Riccardo Muti Leaves Chicago, a Verdi Farewell 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Our assassin ends up running — wait for it — a Chinese laundry. 'The Warrior's Way': Cowboys vs. Ninjas, oh my 2010-12-03T17:25:00Z But the assassin, amazingly, has not yet received a full-dress biography. For a Biography of John Wilkes Booth, Terry Alford Turns to Amateur Researchers 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Joe sells his book to an internet publisher and is soon mistaken for an actual assassin, kidnapped, and dispatched to Venezuela. Actors Flock to Netflix to Satisfy Their Most Loyal Fans 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The news caused hardly a stir, even though he was one of few national attempted assassins in modern times to be set free. He shot George Wallace to be famous. Now he lives in silence. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z The assassin was that most classic of contemporary American malefactors, the disgruntled former employee. | 'The Break of Noon': He?s Born-Again but Still Obnoxious 2010-11-23T05:16:00Z Marvel humour is at its most studenty and self-aware in this movie about the mutant mercenary assassin who first emerged on screen as a cameo in X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009. The 20 best Marvel films – ranked! 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z This is a classic hero’s quest, elevated by creative world building and memorable characters — including courageous farmers turned actors, pirates, steampunk armored assassins and painters. The 5 best science fiction and fantasy novels of 2018 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z On the most recent season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” lip-sync assassin Denali was chatting with her fellow queens when she revealed that most of the famous people she found hot were animated. Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? An Investigation 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z The stakes rise when the assassin threatens harm to Murphy’s girlfriend unless he reveals where Slava is hiding. Review | ‘What You Break’ review: This Long Island is far, far from the Hamptons 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The court favorites and the hooded assassins are gone, the Catholics no longer plot and the Protestants no longer burn; public beheadings do not take place. Remember Roger Mortimer 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Stanton sent another telegram 65 minutes later, saying the president was still alive but “quite insensible,” and reporting, “Investigation strongly indicates J. Wilkes Booth as the assassin of the President.” Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z It was central to the concept of the "accidental assassin" that it was the ordinary man who was guilty. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z Rian Johnson, director of “The Last Jedi,” cited “Akira” as an inspiration for his film “Looper,” which features a child who is able to kill his would-be assassin using only his mind. Why the pioneering Japanese anime ‘Akira’ is still relevant 30 years later 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Among the burning barrels, ripped denim and fluorescent mohawks was a potential other life for Eleven running around with a group of renegade assassins. Stranger Things 2: just as potent a second time? Discuss with spoilers 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z To portray a serene assassin in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, he studied Eastern and Egyptian philosophy and samurai meditation. Oscar Winner Forest Whitaker's New Role: Fighting For Africa's Child Soldiers 2012-12-06T15:00:00Z And not the shooters, a couple of would-be assassins about whom little is yet known. Images of Muhammad and a Texas cartoon show's sketchy purpose 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z “So, in one airplane, three widows of three American public figures murdered by assassins.” Robert F. Kennedy’s final flight: The storied journey of the ride from California to New York 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z They were in the public eye so often that they became easy targets for the press — and political assassins. 'Bhutto': A fascinating documentary about the late Pakistani leader 2011-03-03T21:01:04Z Mr. Criss plays the assassin and, the night before, he had been up late shooting a manhunt scene that blocked off a stretch of Collins Avenue, to the chagrin of nightclubbers and Uber drivers. Darren Criss Plays the Happy-Go-Lucky Killer in the Versace TV Drama 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z By this reckoning, the assassins triumphed, for most publications ignored his entreaty, to protect their staffs from danger or to protect their readers from offense. Timothy Garton Ash Puts Forth a Free-Speech Manifesto 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z The "John Wick" films have code and honor, honor among thieves, honor among assassins, basically. "Menace II Society" to “The Continental”: Albert Hughes on "two responsible ways" to film violence 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Boothies — the term, some say, originated as an insult used by Lincoln scholars — have long labored under the suspicion of being apologists for the assassin, or worse. For a Biography of John Wilkes Booth, Terry Alford Turns to Amateur Researchers 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Jodie Comer’s Villanelle, the culprit, was one of TV’s best ever stone-cold assassins. Murder most foul: Killing Eve’s lethal mistake 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z “Basically I called an editor I knew at the magazine and said, ‘I’m living with Ginger Baker, and assassins want to kill him,’ ” he said. A Documentary Looks at the Drummer Ginger Baker 2012-11-25T01:00:06Z “I understand why these rules are in place, obviously,” said David Bellovin, 19, who played the foiled Nixon assassin Samuel Byck. When the Actors Are Students, and They’re Armed 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z This sounds great and all, but I’ve been waiting for a TV show about a CIA agent who’s dating Jennifer Lopez and is best friends with an amnesic assassin who’s freaky good at math. Affleck-Damon Comedy Headed To CBS 2013-10-11T14:41:38Z He was a beloved fixture in American cinema — a masked avenger, a Latin lover, a mariachi, a matador, an assassin posing as, oh yes, a mariachi. Antonio Banderas Doesn’t Think You’ll Remember Him. Not Yet. 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z When someone mentions that it's a good thing the Morgans will be in town for the rodeo, will there be a scene involving an assassin, a bull and clowns? 2009-12-18T01:18:00Z The British series, which debuted in 2018 and wrapped up this spring, follows a globe-trotting psychopath assassin who favors Vogue-worthy outfits, and the brilliant, single-minded MI6 investigator who becomes obsessed with her. In ‘First Kill,’ Hunter and Prey Fall in Love 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z A woman who’d sheltered the assassins escaped interrogation with a cyanide pill, but they tortured information out of her little son. Assassination Fascination: A Review of Laurent Binet's Prize-Winning HHhH 2012-04-25T10:45:49Z Hilltop life On the way to the Hilltop, Jesus spots one of their cars wrecked on the side of the road and Rick’s all-star assassins rescue them from a medical clinic. The Walking Dead: season six, episode 11 – Knots Untie 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z Meet our assassin, a terminally ill Vietnam vet on his final job. Newly Released Books 2011-08-17T22:44:30Z The first holiday album from country music’s reigning vocal assassin comes full of promise. 20 Albums That Put a New Spin on the Holidays 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z First, there was Polar, January’s slightly daft, gore-streaked Netflix genre flick, in which he plays an assassin on the run from his previous employers. Mads Mikkelsen: ‘One word wrong and you're a dead person’ 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The government was saying there was only one assassin; that there was no conspiracy. 50 years on, finding profit in `truth' on JFK case 2013-05-11T16:07:15Z Moving through this derelict world of abandoned subdivisions, dust storms and shifting allegiances is Angel Velasquez, a water company assassin, or "Water Knife." Amid a real drought, thriller 'Water Knife' cuts to the quick 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z This month, he joins the second season of Hanna, the high-octane Amazon series about a child assassin. Dermot Mulroney: 'I remember Charlie Sheen climbing over a balcony, half-clothed …' 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z He pieces together the truth while being pursued by the FBI and killer assassins. 3D 'Lion King' rules box office for second week 2011-09-25T18:58:34Z But I’m going with this prickly 1960 evergreen in which two hired assassins wait for orders to kill in a clammy basement room. Finding the Sweet, Stinging Salt in Plays of Confinement 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z Although an assassin that is not deadly would not be much of an assassin. The Deadly Assassin: Doctor Who classic episode #8 2013-06-14T09:00:00Z The real excitement is that Patel, who was also good as a duped assassin in last year’s “The Wedding Guest,” might get to do more in a movie than be a sidekick or symbol. 12 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2020 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z You could position Killing Eve in this schlockily entertaining lineage – but, refreshingly, the erotic frisson between Eve and sociopathic assassin Villanelle has nothing to do with guys. Sequins, eyeliner and loos: how female friendships on screen got real 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z The limited-edition beverage has become a key ingredient in a TikTok trend in which users concoct elaborate horror scenes — with Grimace as the implied assassin. In a TikTok Trend, Grisly Scenes of Purple Milkshake Horror 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z An assassin's bullets destroyed all of John's possible worlds in 1980 — and all of his loved ones', too. May Pang opens up about John Lennon's "Lost Weekend" in her "love story" documentary 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z It included a photo of an assassin being carried off with a knife. Colleges turn ‘fake news’ epidemic into a teachable moment 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z It’s another skewed Bolaño love story, laced with faint traces of noir menace evinced in references to “two assassins,” “the night in the hotel,” “a secret agent.” Books of The Times: Poems by Bao Phi, Roberto Bola?o and Simon Armitage ? Review 2011-12-19T22:52:42Z But for this particular assassin, it’s personal; and after facing death, Mike loses his already tenuous grasp on his own cool. ‘Bad Boys for Life’ review: Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back, baby, and it’s a blast 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z The idea of the assassin or criminal forced to lie low somewhere unfamiliar and just wait is a time-honoured idea: other examples are Martin McDonagh's In Bruges and Paolo Sorrentino's The Consequences Of Love. The American ? review 2010-10-15T22:00:00Z Not like The Cousins, Leonel and Marco, the heartless assassins who make offerings to some dark deity before they silently hunt their quarry. The chameleonic importance of Lalo Salamanca on "Better Call Saul" is that his evil travels 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Jang plays an assassin who has all but wiped out a rival clan. 'The Warrior's Way': Cowboys vs. Ninjas, oh my 2010-12-03T17:25:00Z This is Gemini Man, a frantic thriller in which Will Smith plays an assassin hunted by his own younger clone; where there’s a Will, there’s another Will, you might say. Ang Lee: 'I know I'm gonna get beat up. But I have to keep trying' 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Following a 65-year-old woman in Seoul who is ready to retire from being a hired assassin, Gu’s first novel to be translated into English addresses societal attitudes on aging in Korea and elsewhere. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Particle physicists capture antimatter; assassins steal it; the pope wants it to reach God. Dan Brown still can't write, but he deserves some respect 2013-05-16T11:45:00Z It was remarkable when the second season of “Killing Eve,” the dark and delightful comedy about a spy, an assassin and their mutual obsession, was as good as the first. Review: A ‘Killing Eve’ That No One Was Asking For 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Glenda Jackson, in her first big part, played the assassin Charlotte Corday as a waif-like narcoleptic unable to control her behaviour, but also – completely believably – the differently-mad person playing Corday. The best performance I've ever seen: David Edgar 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z This was not as strange as the frequent ads for the video game “Dishonored 2,” which allows gamers to play assassins seeking to kill an evil queen. Under the “circle of doom”: Fox News gives us the season finale of its Trump boosting coverage 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z Regardless, the woman in the apartment pulls no punches about her complete sympathy for the assassin and her own hatred for Thatcher. ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,’ by Hilary Mantel 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Arriving in the guise of a plumber sent to fix the woman’s boiler, the assassin commandeers her apartment and makes her his prisoner. ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,’ by Hilary Mantel 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Similarly, the temp wonders about learning the assassin’s trade herself, making a hilarious pro/con list: “Under the pro column: learn the new skill of murdering. Under the con column: whoops, now you’ve murdered.” Review | ‘Temporary’ puts a whole new spin on millennial woe 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z In taking on the figure of the alienated assassin, they found much in him that resembled themselves; both the film's makers and its audience were horrified and sympathetic, repelled and complicit. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z The grey area that Taxi Driver inhabits has always been the zone in which assassins appear in film. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z He devolves rapidly from avenging angel into psychopathic assassin. Summertime of the Dead by Gregory Hughes – review 2012-09-28T21:55:03Z The action later shifts to Vietnam as Hel pursues his love interest, Solange, and is himself pursued by a mysterious assassin known as The Cobra. Killer idea 2011-04-28T07:50:00Z In “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie play world-class assassins whose flagging marriage is reborn after they face off against — and then battle alongside — each other. Film: ?Date Night? Adventure for Steve Carell and Tina Fey 2010-04-04T02:58:00Z Though others have covered Operation Nemesis, Bogosian's extensive reliance on the assassin's memoirs, published seven years before his death in 1960, injects his account with the psychological highs and lows Tehlirian endured. Eric Bogosian's 'Operation Nemesis' chases Turkish perpetrators 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z An action thriller about a group of volunteers who protect modern China's founding father from imperial assassins dominated the Hong Kong Film Awards, winning best film and seven other awards. 'Bodyguards and Assassins' dominates HK awards 2010-04-19T02:16:00Z I'd love to dive in and play some kind of French assassin, like "The Professional." Q&A: Josh Groban sings about love lost _ again 2013-02-05T14:51:28Z However, the young assassin doesn’t look like she intends to stop her killing spree anytime soon, leaving many fans to wonder who will become her next victim. This Game of Thrones Theory May Reveal Who Arya Will Kill Next 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Also, whenever the assassin version of Kevin looks into a mirror, his consciousness jumps into the body of his identical twin, the President. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 7: Bombs Away 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Philip and Elizabeth must stop an assassin from taking out key U.S. scientists; Grannie shocks Elizabeth with the truth of what happened between Philip and Irina in New York. Wednesday TV Picks: ‘Arrow’ on The CW 2013-03-19T18:15:10Z Mandela, Sellars said, attempted to break the cycles of racial violence with an “unexpectedly humane response to terrorism,” and in “Clemenza” the director makes the Roman emperor Titus, who forgives his assassins, a Mandela-like figure. Peter Sellars turns Mozart's last opera into a modern message of humanity in the face of terror 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z For many, defending Mr. Rushdie and “The Satanic Verses” against his would-be assassins may be easy, Mr. Akhtar said. The Stabbing of Salman Rushdie Renews Free Speech Debates 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z They think they’re making things better by beating themselves on the back like that albino assassin in “The Da Vinci Code.” Bill Maher and Fran Lebowitz: When Comedy Cuts Deep 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z To him she’s still his little sister, not an expert assassin who lives by the sword he made for her. "Game of Thrones" recap: It's a reunion! The dying can start any day now 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z He does calisthenics, chases down a rival assassin on a scooter and builds a custom rifle for a client. ‘Barry’ Joins a Long Line of Sensitive Assassins 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Wendy says it best this week after an executive at a female-friendly firm makes a play for her services: “You want me to make your people assassins.” ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 11: The Doctor Is In 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z It also plants a bitterly troubled assassin in the crowd. In Dan Brown’s ‘Origin,’ Robert Langdon Returns, With an A.I. Friend in Tow 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z The subjects of the photos — wary soldiers, dead soldiers, stoic families, Confederate spies, would-be assassins, Abraham Lincoln himself — are tiny, ghostly. The lighting designer: First, do no harm 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z So when Ben breezes into work one morning to discover only vacant rooms and zero evidence of his employment, he knows just what to do: unleash his inner assassin. Movie Review: ‘Erased,’ Directed by Philipp Stölzl 2013-05-17T01:02:49Z Of course, there are assassins hunting him with every step. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Big Bang Theory’ and ‘Salome’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z You kept the fringed jacket you wore as the assassin Mr. Wrench in “Fargo.” Confirm or Deny: Russell Harvard 2019-06-02T04:00:00Z The first step of the expanded universe will be Ballerina, about a female assassin who has to kill some other assassins. A John Wick 'expanded universe' – Hollywood's most idiotic idea yet? 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z That’s true whether we view the assassins purely as historical figures or also as metaphors for an aggressive strain of lethal discontent as American as Old Glory. Review: This Revival of Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ Misses Its Mark 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z And it’s the president’s mission to kill and gut the assassin, who has a key sewn into his heart that will unlock the nuclear football. ‘The Leftovers’ Season 3, Episode 7: Bombs Away 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z Serbs see the 19-year-old assassin, a Bosnian Serb, as a heroic fighter for the freedom of all southern Slavs from centuries of imperial occupation over the Balkans. Serbs unveil statue to 'hero' who set Europe marching to war 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Randall Lear made his professor into an aesthetic assassin, giving her a bag and asking her to throw it off a roof as often as she liked. In the galleries: At Hamiltonian, a birthday celebration of a different sort 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z It's time to say goodbye to Ezio and Altair, but not before venturing off into one last grand adventure with our favorite assassins of centuries ago. Game On: 'Revelations' ends well; 'Lord of the Rings' lacks thrills 2011-11-25T18:42:03Z It seems as though the young man Kim points to as her intended murder victim plays no other role than providing potential bait to a would-be assassin. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 8 Recap: Showdown 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Black Widow was trained to be an assassin so putting her in that position she was in in the skit is ridiculous. Melissa Benoist: Playing Supergirl Taught Me 'Not to Take Any Crap' 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z In between “Homeland” seasons, he played another assassin, in the action film “Hitman: Agent 47.” Rupert Friend Is Tired of Killing 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Because, really, whose living room doesn't beg for the rotting pine box of a notorious assassin? How much would you pay for John Lennon's toilet? 2011-01-06T00:44:04Z That tousled woman who talks a mile a minute and is entirely oblivious to personal boundaries — she is not, in fact, an assassin. Review | ‘Heisenberg’ turns an odd-couple love into faith in humanity 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Forts writes letters to the assassin and exchanges ideas with him. Police arrest artist setting up ‘I Love NY’ work 2012-05-21T20:16:00Z Unlike some other titles on the genocide, Bogosian's refrains from lionizing the assassins and eschews the argumentative tone reverberating throughout this body of literature. Eric Bogosian's 'Operation Nemesis' chases Turkish perpetrators 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z He has good clothes, plentiful liquor and access to whatever women Uday doesn’t want, but he has to serve as a decoy for assassins, a celebrity impersonator and, worst of all, Uday’s official best buddy. | 'The Devil?s Double': Straight From Uday Hussein?s Inner Circle 2011-07-29T00:16:46Z Her hand-to-hand battle in a restaurant kitchen with a female assassin, during which Cooper uses a frying pan to protect her breasts, is a perfect blend of gut-busting comedy and expertly executed action. The best (and worst) US culture 2015: Film 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Last evening, about 10:30 p.m., at Ford’s Theater, the President, while sitting in his private box with Mrs. Lincoln, Miss Harris, and Major Rathbone, was shot by an assassin . Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z The book’s titular assassin, who committed his crimes in Austin in the late nineteenth century, had “a rich need to ritualistically kill,” Hollandsworth said. A True-Crime Veteran on Our Fascination with Serial Killers 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z Moris also shows the faces of several men in a parked van and declares them government assassins. ‘Ithaka’ Review: In Julian Assange They Trust 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z The pressures of balancing work and motherhood are typically enough to fill several films, and that's without the mom also being a world-class assassin. Netflix's "Kill Boksoon" slays with a sharp, stylish take on an assassin balancing work & parenting 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Jodie Comer, known for playing the charismatic assassin Villanelle on “Killing Eve,” has received glowing reviews for her West End stage debut in the one-woman play “Prima Facie.” Jodie Comer to Make Broadway Debut in ‘Prima Facie’ Next Spring 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z From a teenage Nazi assassin to a richly drawn William Burroughs, the characters are all outsiders, all broken in their own ways, reflecting the troubled history of both the building and the world around it. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z But is there ever a good time to mount a musical in America about assassins? “Assassins” is Stephen Sondheim's killer musical that we don’t talk about 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z As Arthur Bishop, a wealthy assassin who is ordered to execute a close friend, Bronson seemed less remote than usual, partly because the character was eventually required to mentor the victim's son. 'The Mechanic': Jason Statham is no Charles Bronson in this remake 2011-01-27T22:39:06Z After Robert Kennedy’s death, there were incorrect reports that the assassin was a black man. Books of The Times: ‘Seven American Deaths and Disasters’ Transcribes the News 2013-06-18T19:13:23Z The writer becomes a kind of actor, playing the part of another, and like Brown, he too was "a sort of understudy; always in a state of being ready to act the assassin". Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z In a movie full of deadly assassins, a dramatic prison break and an exploding covert facility, the scene in question is a simple conversation between two sisters about the marvel that is a vest. In "Black Widow," here's why a simple vest – with pockets! – means so much 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z As a woman, she's a rarity in the assassin world that so enthralls Eve, perhaps for more than simply professional reasons. Manic pixie death girl: “Killing Eve” and the adorable assassin 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Later this month, Ms. Henson begins production on the movie “Proud Mary,” in which she plays an assassin who discovers a maternal instinct. Taraji P. Henson: Talking Cookie, and the Impact of ‘Hidden Figures’ 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z He is also planning a sequel to his Kill Bill films, with Uma Thurman reprising her role as the wronged assassin. Jackie Brown characters to hit big screen again, without Tarantino 2010-05-25T14:15:00Z Arya seemed destined for ninja-hood at the beginning of Season 5, joining a mysterious group of assassins called the Faceless Men. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6: Here’s Where We Left Off 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z He went from busboy to failed assassin in the seconds it took to squeeze off five shots. He shot George Wallace to be famous. Now he lives in silence. 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z How did you identify with and approach this character, a quiet assassin? William Levy defied convention to make his own Spanish-language assassin flick 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The cumulative effect is a grim, itchy reality where tenderness is rare and the lion's share of humanity is accorded to an assassin. Hilary Mantel's short-story collection long on controversy 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z It takes some work to make Villanelle, the childishly enthusiastic assassin played by Jodie Comer in “Killing Eve,” less entertaining. ‘Killing Eve’ Review: The End of the Road 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z He doesn't believe in codes of honor and "star assassins." "That was an epic moment":"John Wick 4" martial artist on that traffic battle and honoring Bruce Lee 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Melissa George played a sad-eyed lady spy, constantly pursued by unknown assassins and fully capable of snapping a man's spine without displacing her beanie. 2012: a bumper year for homegrown TV 2012-12-29T00:07:11Z Everyone loves an onscreen assassin: how cool they are, how capable. Manic pixie death girl: “Killing Eve” and the adorable assassin 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z "Yet a whole musical drama about assassins? This is the stuff of university faculty revue evenings, at best." Sondheim hails 'fresh' Assassins show 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z It’s clear where Mantel’s sympathies lie: Royals are mythic, archaic, “both gods and beasts,” but it’s their assassins — the stiff-backed, lawyerly, provincial fanatics — whom she loves. Hilary Mantel Takes On Royals and Rebels in a Book of Essays 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Theodore Roosevelt assumed the presidency after his predecessor was cut down by an assassin's bullet on Sept. 'Colonel Roosevelt': Edmund Morris' superb account of Teddy Roosevelt's final, feisty years 2010-12-22T22:06:14Z Aureliano Buendía die by the hand of unknown assassins and a debauched wannabe priest is dispatched in the bath by a group of young adolescents. Five totally immoral books besides 'Fun Home' Duke University students should also skip 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z In Mr Preston’s account, he ordered his private squad of Moscow-trained assassins to liquidate heroic resistance fighters and underground party organisers, whom he saw as a threat to his own ever-more-powerful position in the party. Betrayal and atonement 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z A sleek George Clooney stars as Jack, an assassin lying low in a beautiful, remote Italian village, and busying himself with a specialist assignment: designing and building a rifle for a one-off job. The best films for Christmas 2010 2010-11-22T08:00:00Z The latest book, Of Love And Evil, is the second in a series about Toby O'Dare, a former assassin turned envoy for angels, who time-travels to Renaissance Italy like a kind of celestial MacGyver. Anne Rice: 'I thought the church was flat-out immoral' 2010-10-24T19:59:00Z You might argue Frank’s shock is realistic, but given that the movie is about an assassin kidnapped by an evil scientist, verisimilitude more or less goes out the window. Don’t take “The Assignment”: Michelle Rodriguez plays a transgender assassin in the year’s worst movie so far 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Not that what he writes can be trusted anyway: He filled his first, “Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: An Unauthorized Autobiography,” in 1984, with tales of his adventures as a CIA assassin. “Gonged at Last”: game show impressario and author Chuck Barris dead at 87 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z He kicks off the satisfying second track on the 1991 masterpiece “The Low End Theory” with the immortal “Yo! Microphone check, one two what is this? / The five-foot assassin with the roughneck business.” Phife Dawg: Farewell to the Five-Foot Assassin With the Roughneck Business 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z He is stalked by an actual would-be assassin as well. Robert Pattinson and Director David Cronenberg on Cars, Cosmopolis and Fans Who Care 2012-08-14T20:48:47Z Left alone, Rigoletto grimly reflects that he, who wounds people with verbal barbs, and the assassin, who stabs them with a blade, are not that different. Familiar Operas Are Stunningly Fresh in English 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Set on the day of President Obama’s inauguration, the movie descends into a sterile, fluorescent-lit bunker to observe two rival teams of government assassins, all named for Tarot cards and all seriously disturbed. | 'Operation: Endgame': Epic Spy Games With Ellen Barkin 2010-07-15T23:10:00Z But the “John Wick” franchise, built around a weary assassin played by Keanu Reeves, has now shown dramatic growth with each consecutive sequel, something no action-thriller property has done before, according to analysts. Little Lionsgate Soars to the Top With John Wick Ticket Sales 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z An assassin bug glues its dead insect victims to its back as camouflage. Dancing scorpions, leaping spiders star in British 3D TV series 2013-05-31T14:05:19Z It was a remarkable win for the English actress, who is best known for playing the assassin Villanelle on the television show “Killing Eve.” Jodie Comer Wins Best Leading Actress in a Play for ‘Prima Facie’ 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z And along the way, he got the notion that there might be an audience for his kooky, Vatican assassin shtick. Why Charlie Sheen's live show was bound to fail 2011-04-04T15:30:00Z The youngest of the assassins discovered her but left without betraying her. Peter Eotvos Prepares the Opera ‘Senza Sangue’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Then Yael falls in love with an assassin, with whose family she and her father flee Jerusalem after the Romans crush a rebellion there. 'The Dovekeepers': Alice Hoffman's novel of the siege of Masada 2011-10-05T23:00:08Z Other assassins have been less transparent in their motives. Age of Assassins: A History of Conspiracy and Political Violence by Michael Newton – review 2012-11-18T00:05:09Z This dangerous man is a political assassin facing extradition to America. Nicolas Cage channels his “inner jaguar” for the big cat action flick “Primal” 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z And in “Bad Blood,” Swift plays a character in a more literal sense, costumed like an assassin and performing elaborate stunts. The 'Bad Blood' Music Video Proves Taylor Swift's Power of Reinvention 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z In the communist era, the church was used for storing potatoes, and the streets around it were named for Alexander’s assassins. Stories of revolution in Russia’s St. Petersburg 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z And by “the devil” I mean Billy Butcher, the ruthless, potty-mouthed leader of the team of soldiers and assassins devoted to fighting, extorting, torturing and killing superheroes. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z “Ours is not a film that goes down the middle,” said Sharlto Copley, who plays a maniacal South African assassin in “Elysium,” which arrives in theaters on Aug. 9. With ‘Elysium,’ Sony Hopes to Break a String of Failures 2013-07-30T22:05:02Z Robie is an assassin with ethics, and the nonstop action and twists help move the story along. Review: `The Hit' is a winner from David Baldacci 2013-04-24T17:18:09Z The action sequences of "Into the Ring" are top notch, especially the episode's closing battle between Daredevil and Fisk's knife-wielding assassin. 'Daredevil' series premiere recap: A Show Without Fear 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z I did, however, appreciate the film’s insinuation that more people are likely to die from suburban bliss than from any number of hired assassins. | 'Killers': Katherine Heigl Amid Bake Sales and Assassins 2010-06-04T22:05:00Z Coming uncorked at his most desperate moment, the skilled assassin in Barry finds proper motivation as an amateur actor. Review | Terrific ‘Barry’ shows how HBO’s best dramas are often found in its comedies 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The young man smiled, accustomed to his teacher's mercurial temperament, and the way he hovered with the sharp eyes of an angel or assassin. Fabio Bidini, 'last teacher' to Colburn School's pianists, thrives 'inside the music' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z When you see it stylized, kind of parallel universe, it's a subculture of assassins and it's more winking and nodding at the audience of throwback John Woo type stuff. "Menace II Society" to “The Continental”: Albert Hughes on "two responsible ways" to film violence 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z “Woooh, chile! That was six months of sacrifice. I went from a size 10 to a two. Tarantino turned us all into assassins.” Vivica A Fox: 'Black Lives Matter is going to be Trump's demise' 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Don't send a king to do an assassin's job. "Game of Thrones" recap: "The Long Night" arrives at Winterfell, at last 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Fox is considering series about a family of assassins working for the U.S. government, about a gang member infiltrating a police force and about a person systematically murdering people in the fedeeral witness protection program. Report shows persistence of TV violence 2013-05-01T13:39:09Z He’s the assassin with only half of a face. ArtsBeat Blog: The New Kid in Town: Charlie Cox on 'Boardwalk Empire' 2011-09-30T16:23:46Z The actual order of events for her character, Stephanie, is family girl, addict, assassin. ‘The Rhythm Section’ Review: The Semi-Reluctant Assassin 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z For the most part, Wick chases or is chased by other assassins, shooting and stabbing, grappling and grunting in a series of visually distinct, meticulously staged and filmed set pieces. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: There Will Be Blood, Yeah 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z But he’s not a concerned citizen at all: He’s an assassin who summarily tries to strangle her. ‘Designated Survivor’ Season 1, Episode 10: Fireworks 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Red or dead: Helen Mirren, an unlikely assassin in the forthcoming RED, alongside Bruce Willis. From Justin Bieber to John Malkovich, this week's winners and losers 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z “We were too busy and hungry to think about the British and their families,” one assassin told Bergman, recounting how he shot a British officer on a Jerusalem street in 1944. ‘Rise and Kill First’ Shines Light on Israel’s Hidden Assassinations 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z Everyone’s favorite fashionable assassin show from earlier this year is finally streaming. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Complications ensue as the assassins face off against Japanese hit men, two-faced informants and a soapy, separated-at-birth subplot that gradually takes center stage. Review: ‘Assassination,’ With Twists and Hired Guns in 1930s Seoul and Shanghai 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The youngest Stark daughter has the best arc on the show, going from wide-eyed tomboy to silent assassin. Tyrion, Daenerys ... Hot Pie? The greatest Game of Thrones characters 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Not even the assassin, who calls herself Bach and calls her beloved semiautomatic Anna Magdalena, is anything special. Bill Clinton and James Patterson Team Up to Imagine a True Fantasy: Sane Politics 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z But it seems like all the other assassins onboard want it, too. Summer Movies 2022: Here’s What’s Coming to Theaters and Streaming 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z “Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid” focuses on Billy’s relationship with his onetime friend and eventual assassin. In This ‘Billy the Kid,’ the Wounds Are Those You Cannot See 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z A variety of foes must be overcome, from nimble assassins to hulking metal golems. Infinity Blade ? review 2010-12-19T00:06:23Z “I did not fit the profile” of an assassin. Artist Behind Donald Trump Gravestone in Central Park Steps Forward 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z “Rise of the Tomb Raider,” explains Hughes, will be less about Croft the video game assassin, and more about Croft the video game archaeologist. 'Rise of the Tomb Raider' is a tale of 'woman versus wild' 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z She eschews the black leather edginess or evening wear elegance of the traditional fictional assassin for bright colors, wild prints, fun outfits that often read as young. Manic pixie death girl: “Killing Eve” and the adorable assassin 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z The characters’ affluent lives are upended after their husbands are arrested for links to the same crime cartel, whether as accountant, assassin or a top boss. Sisterhood rules in Peacock’s first Spanish-language series 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z It's ok to be reluctant if you are a shop assistant but as an assassin it is a real drawback. Quickfire interview: Eoin Colfer on Doctor Who 2013-01-08T09:00:00Z The story follows an unnamed gig worker as she navigates a series of absurd temp jobs: ghost pal, pirate, assassin’s assistant. New & Noteworthy Anthologies, From Climate Reporting to Gun Violence 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Batman had his gloved hands full: Damian was trained to be an assassin and did not care for the hero’s nonlethal methods. Batman and His Many Robins 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z Is it a spoiler to reveal that Paul is ex-military and a retired assassin? 'The Prince' appears more like a pauper in the thriller department 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z The ongoing bizarre and hilarious superhero series from Seth Rogen dropped a new trailer featuring Herr Starr, a key villain and assassin in the comics. Here Are All the Trailers From Comic-Con 2017 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z To the overall narrative, it is the loom that weaves the "John Wick" universe's fabric, the doorway to a mysterious underworld roamed by assassins and crime bosses and bound by laws designed to maintain civility. Don't check into Peacock's John Wick spinoff "The Continental," not even to check out Mel Gibson 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Later this year, Ang Lee’s Gemini Man will appear, starring Will Smith as an assassin who meets his younger self. Has Hollywood’s ‘de-ageing’ gone too far? Martin Scorsese thinks so 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The story of this relationship has come to light on the eve of what would have been Lennon’s 70th birthday on Saturday, had he not been struck down by an assassin’s bullet in 1980. The Bay Citizen: Family Opened Up the Door to John and Yoko 2010-10-08T04:15:00Z These terrible acts, the authors write, “are not a coincidence; they constitute frighteningly clairvoyant readings of ‘Catcher’ — the assassins intuiting the underlying postwar anger and violence in the book.” Books of The Times: A Biography From David Shields and Shane Salerno 2013-08-25T21:13:01Z My friend James Badge Dale and I talk about it like we get to be hired assassins: We go in, throw down and walk away. Jon Bernthal’s Guide to Making It as a Supporting Actor 2022-01-19T05:00:00Z He called Barack Obama "B.O." and made, at one point, a reference to "Vatican assassin warlocks." Charlie Sheen commits career suicide 2011-02-25T15:26:00Z Something that differentiates Villanelle from decades of assassins on screen is that, in many regards, she's innocent. Manic pixie death girl: “Killing Eve” and the adorable assassin 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z Their ninja assassin Tabitha and Napoleon piece was 180 degrees from Lauren and Kent's wistful romanticism, in the best possible way. Dancers, minus Alex Wong, mix things up on "SYTYCD" 2010-07-08T11:40:00Z But I can't imagine standing in that crowd, listening to the obvious being stated more slowly than rust develops, without musing that this must be how political assassins get their motivation. There's a right way to deal with hecklers. Then there's Michelle Obama's… 2013-06-08T23:05:27Z Some experts believe the man is Abraham Lincoln, captured hours after the nation’s beloved 16th president succumbed to an assassin’s bullet on April 15, 1865, a heretofore unknown photo of incalculable emotional and historic value. Documentary tries to prove existence of dead Lincoln photo 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z With the full weight of two gangs of assassins about to bear down on them, making it through the night alive will be a challenge. ‘First Love’ Review: Eluding Assassins With the Help of a Boxer 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Cicero’s beloved daughter and grandson die, for example, and subsequently assassins arrive to saw off the statesman’s head and hands; Mark Antony’s wife then attacked his severed tongue with needles. ‘On Consolation’ Searches for Solace in the Face of Grief and Misery 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Also tracking Sarah to the fundraiser are yakuza assassins hired by the Japanese company that manufactures the synthetic blood product. 'True Blood' recap: Bon Temps celebrates life as body count grows 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z During the chilling opening scene of the show's third season, a pair of cartel assassins is shown crawling to the saint's shrine in Mexico to request some divine help. `Breaking Bad' brings tourists to Albuquerque 2013-03-15T10:31:06Z Not exactly, but both are true for Jodie Comer, who is known for her role as the sociopathic but charismatic assassin Villanelle on the darkly comic “Killing Eve,” just back for Season 3. Jodie Comer on Her Killer Beauty Regimen 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z “This miraculously came along for me,” she said of her role — as a bloody assassin — in Summit Entertainment’s graphic novel-based movie “RED.” A Queen Works the Crowd at Comic-Con 2010-07-23T12:32:00Z Eve’s nemesis, the emotionally damaged but effective assassin Villanelle, has her own bumpy transformation, Comer said. ‘Killing Eve’ deadly cat-and-mouse game enters last season 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Romanoff is a former KGB assassin and current agent of SHIELD, Marvel’s fictional counter-terrorism organisation. Black Widow: first trailer for the Scarlett Johansson superhero movie released online 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z A vengeful assassin, the son of a drug cartel matriarch on a mission, bloodies the waters of their argument by taking a few shots at Mike. ‘Bad Boys for Life’ Review: In a Minivan, but Still Riding 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z As a child, Evan was recruited out of an East Baltimore group home to participate in the Orphan program, an off-the-books intelligence operation that raised promising children into government assassins. Gregg Hurwitz is full of thrilling, erudite contradictions 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z Hit Man: Pierce Brosnan is an overworked international assassin at the end of his rope. ‘Barry’ Joins a Long Line of Sensitive Assassins 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z Was that a reflection from the sniper scope of a patient beautiful female assassin dressed in black leather, waiting to shoot him if he let slip any details of the important book too soon? Dan Brown's Inferno: a tall writer offers his historic review 2013-05-14T06:01:01Z In the movie, an evil CIA assassin is killed with a falling air conditioning unit, which Bay said was just a coincidence. Transformers raid Hong Kong in 'Age of Extinction' 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z In “Bullet Train,” the David Leitch-directed action thriller about five assassins with tangled missions stuck on a high-speed Tokyo train, it actually was. Hiroyuki Sanada Lays Down His Sword for Shohei Ohtani and 10,000 Steps 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z At once basic and off-the-charts nuts, each movie — the fourth opens this week — centers on a laconic assassin with a hazy back story and extraordinary skills. ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: There Will Be Blood, Yeah 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z A genetically engineered assassin takes on a mega-corporation seeking to create an army of killers whose powers surpass even his own. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Zeitz points to the plea to support his contention that Sheeran served in a management capacity overseeing killings and beatings, but did not — as he is portrayed in “The Irishman” — act as an assassin himself. ‘The Irishman’ tells us who killed Jimmy Hoffa. A lawyer with a secret trove of documents says the movie got it wrong. 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z It depicts a family line of assassins and their conflict with the Knights Templar, which spans the Crusades, the Italian Renaissance and, in a forthcoming instalment, the American War of Independence. Fassbender signs up as Assassin 2012-07-09T15:49:46Z She won the heart of the new Emperor Gaozong, dispatched rivals using fleet-footed assassins, but importantly built a following among the common people though wise governance and meritocracy. Better Than Elizabeth Taylor? Meet Liu Xiaoqing 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z Oswald — The Actual Interrogation Dramatic re-creation of the questioning of accused JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald by a Dallas police captain in November 1963. L.A. theater openings, Aug. 10-17: 'Elvis '68,' 'Bird Lives!' and more 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z An investigation begins after a contract assassin targets a Navy lieutenant commander; information about Abby's family emerges after tests for a kidney donation. Tuesday TV Picks: 'Mad Fashion' on Bravo 2011-10-10T22:12:08Z Hit Man: Colin Farrell’s rookie assassin hides out in the titular Belgian city after a hit that killed an unintended victim. ‘Barry’ Joins a Long Line of Sensitive Assassins 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z But the young assassins aren't the only ones with smooth lines to deliver. Best new fall TV: "Nikita" 2010-09-04T23:01:00Z And Cersei loved him back, apart from the bit where she sent an assassin to kill him. Ranking the Deaths in the Final ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Jo Cox, an opponent of Leave, by an assassin who shouted “Britain first!” as he attacked. In “Brexit,” Benedict Cumberbatch Is a Peculiar Man Who Wants to Upend the Order of the World 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z In real life, Seal got away with all kinds of audaciousness, though the odds did catch up with him: he was murdered, in 1986, by Medellín assassins. Review: ‘American Made’ Lets a Smug Tom Cruise Just Be Tom Cruise 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z “Any interest in doing something other than romance? A friend is casting a Clancy-esque book and needs an alpha assassin sound.” That Voice You’re Hearing? It Might Be Hers. 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Among his favorite roles, his brother said, was as Jack Ruby, Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassin, in “Ruby and Oswald,” a 1978 television movie. Michael Lerner, ‘Elf’ and ‘Barton Fink’ Actor, Dies at 81 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z Gilroy says the new film will take place in the same universe as the earlier Bourne movies, but will feature an entirely new assassin with a similar background. Who will step into Matt Damon's Bourne identity? 2011-02-25T18:32:09Z In “Kahaani,” she played a pregnant woman who searches for her missing husband as she is trailed by assassins. An Indian Space Mission Inspires a Bollywood Reckoning 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z It's impossible to watch the original "Firestarter" without reading some darkness here, even beyond the assassin's obvious psychopathy. "Firestarter" taught me the mighty power and powerlessness of childhood 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z She must use the martial arts skills she learned to protect her neighborhood and family, and soon discovers she’s being targeted by the same assassin who killed her Shaolin mentor. A new ‘Kung Fu’ debuts at a crucial time for Asian Americans 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z She proceeds to shoot and kill the assassin who shortly enters her bedroom. Review | The novel ‘American Spy’ breaks down barriers. It’s also a terrific read. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, our heroes are in hot pursuit of a masked assassin who is stalking the city's art world. Best graphic novels of 2012 2012-11-30T11:00:01Z As such, “The Killer” becomes a standard revenge flick, with the assassin tracking down the two hitmen. David Fincher cast the wrong "Killer" in the Netflix thriller that lacks the auteur's usual edge 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z Gandhi declared it to be his guide — as did his assassin, Nathuram Godse, who carried it with him to the gallows. In ‘Godsong,’ a New Poem That’s 2,000 Years Old 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Arya, on the other hand, has traveled by herself for years and is a trained assassin. Arya Stark is an adult woman: "Game of Thrones" sex shock is rooted in hypocritical purity culture 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Ex-K.G.B. agents do die mysteriously of polonium poisoning from time to time, but Kremlin-sent assassins are not likely to blow up New York office towers or unleash chemical weapons in our subways. | 'Covert Affairs': USA?s ?Covert Affairs? Evokes a Cold War Feeling 2010-07-12T21:49:00Z With the continuous threats against the presidential family Connor must always be on guard against assassins and kidnappers. Bodyguard: Hostage by Chris Bradford - review 2013-05-25T14:00:00Z He offers to be a mole for Gordon, who is flabbergasted and outraged by the Penguin’s reappearance but eventually uses his tips on the assassin case. 'Gotham' Recap: Land Deals and Flutes of Death 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Spring's killer shows begin with the self-styled assassin of , Joan Miró. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-01T00:05:47Z The letter explained that the map showed the likely location of a deep lane in which Household's hero – pursued across Europe by Nazi assassins – goes to ground, and where the novel reaches its extraordinary climax. Robert Macfarlane: rereading Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male 2013-03-15T12:03:22Z “He really was one of a kind: polite assassin on the field, model citizen off it,” the book says in one of its dead-on appraisals of Tree/Tiger. Books of The Times: Golf Phenom, Not Tiger Woods. Sure. 2011-06-30T21:03:11Z Directed by Rian Johnson, it features Dark Knight Rises actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt as an assassin ordered to kill an older version of himself. Willis sci-fi to launch Toronto 2012-07-24T15:13:50Z Several of the assassins are immigrants with heavy accents. “Assassins” is Stephen Sondheim's killer musical that we don’t talk about 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z And, naturally, Bond gets to grapple with a Soviet assassin – Necros, whose menace owes nothing to third nipples or dodgy dentistry – while hanging from the back of a plane. My favourite Bond film: The Living Daylights 2012-10-05T09:48:12Z Lonnen played the lead in Harry's Game as an undercover British soldier, sent to Northern Ireland to infiltrate the IRA and kill an assassin. Harry's Game star Ray Lonnen dies 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Bach, so named for her devotion to the classical music constantly playing in her earbuds, is an assassin. Bill Clinton and James Patterson Have Written a Thriller. It’s Good. 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z In a statement released after Tuesday's verdict, Wynn called Francis a "digital assassin" and urged people to think before they post things online or speak ill of others. Jury adds $20M more to Wynn slander case damages 2012-09-12T00:10:09Z Of course, anxious honey badger shifters, winged Norse goddesses and overprotective tiger shifter assassin moms will either appeal to you or send you running. It’s binge-reading season. Here are the genre-bending romance series to fuel your addiction. 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z At 10, “The Catch” continues its sophomore season as the team members face off with an assassin hunting their new client. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Orphan Black’ and ‘Sister Act’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z Clooney plays Jack, an assassin first seen hiding out with a beautiful companion in a Swedish forest cabin. The American ? review 2010-10-15T22:00:00Z While being pursued by the FBI and killer assassins, Nathan must put together the truth of his life. Taylor Lautner talks about his newest 'Abduction' 2011-09-23T12:44:47Z And sure enough, below a note about theaters being closed and a warning to watch the Canadian border for the assassins, is a large headline: “Inauguration of Vice President Johnson as PRESIDENT.” Newspaper exhibition follows the day of Lincoln’s death, edition by edition 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Ms. Cook, who was interviewed outside a restaurant in Los Angeles, told TMZ that she had not heard about the incident and then followed up with her comment about Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. Actress Carole Cook Jokes About a Trump Assassination 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The daughter of two assassins, Cain was rendered mostly mute by years of conditioning while being trained to become an expert killing machine. Who Are the Birds of Prey, Exactly? A Guide to Harley Quinn’s Team 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z “The Almighty has His own purposes,” Lincoln told the people who had assembled at the Capitol — including the man who would become his assassin. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Initially, we readers, like Robert, are skeptical of jittery, drunken Patrick and his claims of being targeted by Russian assassins; but, it turns out that that Robert isn’t exactly trustworthy either. Review | ‘A Lonely Man’ is an elegant suspense novel in the tradition of the ‘The Third Man’ 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z Arya graduated from her assassin internship with the Faceless Men and is working on her revenge list, which happens to include the woman currently sitting on the Iron Throne. ‘Game of Thrones’ Is Back. Here’s Where We Left Off. 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z The film tells a romantic story about a man - a professional assassin - and a woman confronting terminal illness. Venice film festival focuses on film innovation 2010-08-31T12:58:00Z And yet, since Reagan’s close brush with a deranged gunman in 1981, no American president has been caught in the cross hairs of an assassin. The Many Blunders of the Secret Service — and the Dangers They Pose to U.S. Presidents 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z In a series of stories published in the late 1960s, she introduced the heroine Alyx, a quick-witted, not greatly beautiful mercenary, thief and assassin who roams energetically across the centuries from antiquity onward. Joanna Russ, Who Drew Women to Sci-Fi, Dies at 74 2011-05-08T07:23:01Z Film historians could probably cite the first female assassin's appearance in cinema with authority, but the average movie-loving Jill recognizes the spiritual grandmothers of "Gunpowder Milkshake." Netflix's "Gunpowder Milkshake" is another dumb fun lark about women who kill 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z In the end, an assassin tossed a bomb at Alexander, killing him on a St. Petersburg street in 1881. Stories of revolution in Russia’s St. Petersburg 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z Her would-be assassins are in jail and the rest of the intelligence community are scurrying like rats to avoid the backlash. Homeland season six finale recap – America First 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z “Russian assassins have developed toxic materials truly worthy of a nuclear superpower, cooking up new radioactive poisons that cause massive organ failure,” Herman writes, with something like awe. Hunting Down the Best True-Crime Tales 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z In recent years, crime in Maastricht, a city of cobblestone lanes and medieval structures, has included a shootout on the highway, involving a Bulgarian assassin hired to kill a rival drug producer. A Dutch City Seeks to End Drug Tourism 2010-08-18T01:31:00Z Perhaps he is also controlling predator drones and a flock of assassins from a basement compound. Books of The Times: ?Operation Mincemeat? by Ben Macintyre 2010-05-11T21:44:00Z But all of the assassins are armed and when they point their weapons at the spectators, there is an urge to duck under the bench seats. Sondheim Assassins revival hits the mark in London 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z His conclusion: The killer was a lone assassin with a big left foot and a whole lot of rage. ‘A Particle of Dread,’ Sam Shepard’s Take on Oedipus 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Marvel Comics' Deadpool is an insane assassin who likes to talk directly to his readers. Deadpool – review 2013-07-06T23:05:45Z Even more disturbing, White discovers these four presidential assassins may not have been acting alone, contrary to what is written in history books. Brad Meltzer's new thriller gets Oval Office insight 2013-01-14T21:54:04Z I’m cheating a little, but these shows debuted within weeks of each other and created an unintentional but wonderful assassin double feature. The Best TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Lin’s assured debut novel follows a Chinese American assassin on a quest to save his wife during the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z I always found it so weird that Lincoln's would-be assassin Lewis Powell looks so much like a hot hipster. Bangable dudes in history 2011-03-22T12:58:00Z While training Arya Stark within at a religious assassin’s guild, a mysterious acolyte known as the Waif faced many frustrations — her student didn’t follow instructions or practice true self-abnegation. ‘Game of Thrones’ Deaths: Every Major One So Far 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z It is entertaining when Cross, surrounded by wolves in the Alaskan wilderness, finds an elegant way of repositioning the tracking device that is allowing government assassins to find him. The Bourne Legacy – review 2012-08-09T14:30:01Z His only reference to the ongoing scandal was a mention of “Cosby assassins,” a variation on a line he’s already used in his stand-up. Review: Hannibal Buress Debuts His New Comedy Central Show 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Two months later, another assassin struck, killing Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. In 1968, protests were a call for peace and for violence 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z It’s a first-rate catchphrase for a ruthless assassin, but it doesn’t make me feel any better about her soul. ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7, Episode 1: A Tale of Two Maps 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z Truly a "Godfather"-level move this is, gathering all the bosses in one place for a master assassin to wipe them out. How to negotiate moving forward from "The Book of Boba Fett" ... like a Godfather 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z |
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