Word: axed
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...gives DeVito a lot of juice, he is one messed-up guy. This movie is not for the light-hearted, and intentionally interchanges between the blithe and the bloody. In one scene, Smoochy will be getting jiggy with it and in the next, a mobster will be headed toward axe-decapitation. The witty one-liners, harsh physical comedy and dark, biting tone force the audience to laugh out loud while squirming in their seats...
...firing line. Zimbabwe's Commercial Farmers' Union has been receiving reports of escalating violence throughout the country. These include the attack on the farm of Iain and Kerry Kay at Marondera, 80 km east of Harare, where a gang of "war veterans" savagely beat her son Jon with pick-axe handles and clubbed the black family security guard, Darlington Vikaveka, to death. Kerry Kay, a prominent human-rights defender who is head of the CFU's AIDS-control program, says that the attack was a repeat of a similar incident two years ago in which workers were chased...
...Intelligence and combat support from local Afghan forces is seldom entirely free of the axe-grinding of local warlords, and Afghan observers believe that may have played a role both in the underestimation of the enemy's strength at Shah-i-Kot and in the performance of the Afghan forces initially deployed. Question marks over the reliability of local Pashtun militias were underscored by the Afghan government's decision midway through the battle to reinforce the allied contingent with 1,000 ethnic Tajik fighters from the Northern Alliance. But despite their solid battlefield performance, the Tajiks' presence has fueled ethnic...
...show than about journalists' eternal belief that the golden age of their profession is always twenty years before whatever the present time happens to be. Critics of Disney contend, with some justification, that this controversy shows the dangers of media consolidation: that giant corporations like Disney will gladly axe a top news show to make money. But in the golden age that these critics appearently long for, before cable, TV news was the monopoly of three outlets, ABC, CBS and NBC, run by paternalistic white men. If that wasn't media consolidation, what is? Paddy Chayefsky's "Network," which lampooned...
...much, and one found oneself fearing that she would fly off the handle at any moment. She seemed stifled, slightly ill at ease, almost hysterical. Then she broke into the schizophrenic voice of her irrational stage alter ego, which sounds like a combination of a southern preacher, an axe murderer and a juvenile delinquent. The tension evaporated, and she did what she does best: perform...