When Thaxter kills, she does so with a blatantly phallic pair of scissors, a detail that now has acquired Hitchcockian resonance thanks to a similarly staged killing in Hitchcock's "Dial M for Murder" (1954).
But we have entered the "mata-mata" stage – kill or be killed – and now only results count; few care how it's done, as long as it's done.
In one scene from A&E's recent and heavily staged The Killing of JonBenét: The Truth Uncovered, a team of dour-faced experts are shown discrediting the theory that six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey's 1996 murder was a cover-up performed by someone in her own home.
Next week, the troupe will get even more site specific, staging "To Kill a Mockingbird" in a defunct courthouse on the grounds of Historic Richmond Town, Staten Island's 100-acre museum of living history.
But the Nazis up the ante at every stage, killing Jews on the street whenever they feel like it.
I was just numbing, numbing, numbing myself then sleeping it off, then getting on stage, killing it in pain, then getting off and smoking, smoking, smoking, not knowing what pain was.
Rowland expressed her envy of Beyoncé's solo success in the lyrics to "Dirty Laundry": "When my sister was on stage, killing it like a motherfucker, I was in rage, feeling it like a motherfucker.
"I was just numbing, numbing, numbing myself then sleeping it off, then getting on stage, killing it in pain, then getting off and smoking, smoking, smoking, not knowing what the pain was.... if I know what hurts the most, you know?
The note-taking app maker Evernote, once lauded for cleaning its employees' homes every two weeks and offering them unlimited vacation, suddenly began to make headlines for other reasons, including switching its CEO, losing its COO, staging layoffs, killing off products and closing offices.
Revolutionaries had staged a coup, killed the prime minister and, with Cuban aid, were building an airfield, purportedly to supply Latin American insurgents.
