Word: bladed
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...York Times cut into the book with a double-edged blade. It praised Epps's light editorial hand which preserved the essential wit and rhythm of Malcolm X's rhetoric, but added that Epps's essay was "more obscure" than the speeches...
...Lima in 1948, where he graduated from the Colegio National de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe and then studied painting and sculpture, not in Milan, but at the National Fine Arts School of Peru. One of his fellow students there, Jose Bracamonte, remembers his pal Carlos as a resourceful blade who lived mainly off gambling (cards, horses, dice), and harbored "like an obsession" the wish to move to the U.S. "We all liked Carlos," recalls Bracamonte. "He was witty, imaginative, cheerful?a big liar and a real friend...
...naive charm, the movie is not consistently successful. Its crudities of characterization and carelessness about certain matters of plot give it a kind of jerry-built look. But The Harder They Come is always exuberant, and sometimes strong, as casually surprising and effortlessly sinister as the blade sliding out of a gravity knife. - Jay Cocks
...family increased. Meanwhile, unobserved hungry children deftly stole the food off the coffin, while tanks rolled by in the distance. The mother's moaning intensified. Suddenly, other women shrieked and pulled her to the ground, grabbing at her arms. She had begun slashing her tongue with a razor blade to inflict physical suffering on herself, and they were trying to stop her. We left the funeral and drove back to Saigon, hardly speaking...
...that was missing from the scene was the distant drum roll and the thwack of the guillotine blade as White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler briskly announced each day which heads will roll in the President's pruning of the bureaucracy. Last week alone the count of important resignations accepted reached 17, bringing the overall total to nearly 60. Not in memory had a U.S. President made such a clean sweep of his own appointments...