Word: abattoirs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Nick Cave’s newest work with the Bad Seeds, Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus, is a daunting affair conceptually and lyrically. The two-disc affair isn’t simply a double album—it’s two albums stuck in the same box—and though it’s easy to see one as simply the “loud” one and the other as the “quiet,” the pairing is interesting at deeper levels as well. Central to both are various Western notions of theology...
No—after back-to-back Harvard victories, someone in that Connecticut abattoir of the mind probably decided that the best way to prevent another Bulldog loss was to incite the home crowd with a late-game spectacle. So the unknown marauders planted a package filled with fireworks on the Yale Bowl’s dingy scoreboard. And when New Haven’s ever-busy police found the suspicious box—several hours before it could have been deployed—they locked down the field and the surrounding streets, causing traffic delays for Harvardian and Yalie...
...wedged into a conveyer belt that carries them from the holding pen to the butcher. Some bleat insistently but most are quiet, bewildered. The machine stops for a moment and Mohammad Hussain, a Muslim cleric who sees to it that all slaughtering at Birmingham's Pak Mecca Meats abattoir is in keeping with religious law, strokes a lamb's head as he waits. The lamb's eyes close in contentment for a moment, until the conveyer whirs back into action. Hussain intones the Muslim blessing, and then with a single expert swipe nearly severs the animal's head. The scene...
...recall staring down into that miserable, tiny abattoir and shuddering and trying to understand that in a few seconds on a gloriously sunny day in an otherwise happy time, a friend had been murdered; a President assassinated; a political movement, which we called the New Frontier, terminated. We reporters had been riding casually in the press buses when we heard three sharp, strange sounds from an ugly building 50 yards in front of us. CBS correspondent Robert Pierpoint, who had covered the Korean War, leaped to his feet and said, "Those sounded like gunshots." In a few seconds...