Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Memphis and reads the writing on the wall: the dream of civil rights was a dream after all. The author realizes his skill at self-delusion and acknowledges his long-repressed fears. Come the Washington riots, he sleeps "with a Billy club fashioned from a broomstick and a wicked butcher knife next...
...purchasing goods and food is estimated to be close to 30 billion hours a year. A Russian joke has someone asking a young boy where his father is. "He's a cosmonaut circling the moon," replies the lad. "And your mother?" "She's waiting in line at the butcher shop...
Frazier settled in Philadelphia with dreams of "a lot of money, a new car and fine clothes." He took a job as a utility butcher in a kosher slaughterhouse and saved his money. Then he sent for his 15-year-old childhood sweetheart, married her and moved into a ghetto apartment. He ballooned up to 235 Ibs., so he went to a neighborhood Police Athletic League gym to pare off some weight. There he came under the paternal eye of a sometime fight manager named Yancey Durham, who recalls that Joe looked just like any other fat boy. One thing...
...Homecoming is a brutal play. Pinter forces you to laugh at a group of people who are so miserable, so maladjusted, so sick, that they are grotesquely funny, Max, the retired butcher, is an ugly old lecher who retaliates for the abuse heaped on him by his wealthy pimp of a son by browbeating his wimpy brother, a sixty-three-year-old chauffeur. Into the mixture comes Teddy, Max's oldest son, a professor at an American university, who seems at first to be the only normal member of the family. But Teddy lets his wife go whoring with both...
Besides the professional, gang-style rustlers, amateur poachers pose a problem. They lasso and shoot or knife one or two steers at a time and often butcher them on the spot. Some of the meat goes into their freezers for future backyard barbecues. The rest is bootlegged to retailers. Because this beef is uninspected and carries no "prime" or "choice" stamps, it is usually ground up and sold as hamburger. Most sheriffs lack the manpower to check the rustlers. Instead, ranchers send gun-toting cowboys on range patrols in trucks and even light planes. The Florida Cattlemen's Association...