Word: butchered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late he has also gone to great pains to improve his image, which used to be that of a thick-necked butcher's son. He has slimmed down to a manageable 210 lbs. and rearranged his hair to present a more distinguished hairline. At last week's CSU conference, a computer started churning out Strauss portraits. However, despite Kiesinger's current headaches, it will take a lot more grooming for Strauss to match the Chancellor's vote-getting charm...
Converted Farmer. Son of a Bronx butcher turned New Jersey chicken farmer, Segal began as a figurative painter and bought his own chicken farm to support himself. The farm was on the verge of bankruptcy and his works were not selling when, one day in 1960, a student walked into an art class he was teaching at a New Brunswick community center with a plaster-impregnated bandage marketed by the local pharmaceutical company, Johnson & Johnson. She asked Segal whether he thought it could be used as an art form. Segal took the stuff home, had his wife wrap...
...sales that probably would have amounted to $1,000,000. Decca may have been thinking of rival EMI's problem in 1966 when its U.S. subsidiary, Capitol Records, had to recall 500,000 copies of a Beatles album because of the cover. It showed the Beatles, in butcher smocks, laden with chunks of raw meat and the decapitated bodies of dolls...
...geniuses when we dream, the butcher the poet's equal there...
Worse, there isn't even much entertainment unless you're radical enough to want victory by one side or the other. The good guys and the bad guys alternately butcher each other bloodily until John Wayne is practically the only survivor. This could be a happy or a sad ending depending on how you choose to think...