Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barbara bakes whole-grain sourdough bread every day; she has a small garden, and wild peas and berries grow on the point, Lance can skin and butcher a moose so that almost all the meat is steak; they keep their yearly moose in a friend's freezer in town. In the summer, fresh salmon, shrimp and crab are easy to come by in Homer...
STYLIANOS Pattakos resembles a Bavarian butcher-balding, with arching, bushy eyebrows and a well-fed physique. He comes from Crete and possesses the unassuming generosity and vengeful temper which is characteristic of his fellow islanders. So great is his pride that the night before the coup, he gave a pistol to his eldest daughter and told her that if she did not hear from him before 3 a.m. the following morning, she must shoot her mother, her younger sister, and herself...
...After being convicted of selling marijuana, Los Angeles Butcher Joe Perkins appealed to the court to strike down the California anti-pot law on the grounds, among others, that marijuana belongs in "a zone of mental or sensory privacy" that the state cannot properly invade. With the failure of the court to hear his pot protestations, Perkins will have to serve his five-year-to-life sentence...
Mile. Helene (Stephane Audran) is the attractive schoolmistress in the placid provincial town. She befriends the local butcher Popaul (Jean Yanne) at a wedding feast and later presents him with a cigarette lighter. But their tranquil country life is disrupted by a taste of urban terror: a girl's body is found horribly mutilated. Soon another grisly murder is committed; this time Helene discovers the body while on a picnic with her students. Next to the body is a lighter that appears to be Popaul's. Helene finds herself I caught in a maelstrom of dark violence...
...knock on strangers' doors and inquire politely, "Is this the party?" Or walk into one door of a Checker cab stopped in traffic and out the other (apologizing to the passenger), or call up relatives and confound them with some uncanny voice impersonation of the rabbi or the neighborhood butcher. It was the kind of desperately funny behavior that was a frustrated child's plea for attention and a cry for help...