Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only one cut out for the madness of that war. Soon his friends are on their way home; either dead or seriously wounded. Anthony, addicted to this to make him a man. Instead, it made it hard for him to sleep through the night. Taking a job at the butcher's, Anthony tries to straighten out his life, but he is soon sucked into a scheme to hijack an armored car. At this point the audience must wonder how many times this film can change gears. Just as one gets comfortable with the pace, the Hughes Brothers slam it into...
...Hope, Pennsylvania. Burke rose to prominence in the creative caldron of New York City's "Harlem Renaissance." You may be carrying her best-known work at this very moment--the profile of Franklin Roosevelt that appears on the dime, which is based on a drawing Burke rendered on butcher paper after a 1943 encounter with F.D.R...
...signal accomplishment. The Palestinians, however, are wondering what kind of society that independence will bring them. "I need to feel improvements in my daily life," says Nabil Abu Muaileq, a civil engineer in Gaza City, "not just see big leaders on TV talking about it." Hisham Saleh, a butcher in the West Bank city of el-Bireh, pauses from his work and says, "Judging from what's happened in Gaza and Jericho, I expect no improvement in our lives when the Palestinian Authority comes here...
...quite a proposition from the man who was called "The Butcher of the Balkans" not so long ago. The interview was his first with an English-language publication in more than a year, and that he gave it may be itself some indication of his seriousness-or of his plight...
Suddenly he appears, shadowed by a bodyguard with a cobra stenciled on his jacket. Koernke is a big man; he looks like the butcher's boy grown up. His voice is high and reedy, but it has come to represent the truth. He is introduced, and acknowledges the ensuing ovation. And then the darling of the militia movement gives his little half-smirk and begins: "Ladies and gentlemen, we just came back from Palm Springs, where the disinformation flowed like water, trust...