Word: butchered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They look big enough to brain the butcher and turn their users into Lilliputians, but jumbo-sized needles, oil inch in diameter, are the biggest knitting news in years. Reason is that the big stitches they produce have cut the time it takes to knit a dress to six hours or less. "Anyone can use them," says their inventor, Jeanne Damon, 40, a onetime commercial artist, abstract painter and freelance knitwear designer. And if the resulting dresses are practically see-throughs, this is no drawback in the age of the body stocking...
First to die was John Kent ("Shob") Carter, 25, whose body was found one night in his psychedelically painted apartment. He had been stabbed twelve times with a butcher knife, and his right arm was severed at the elbow. A few days later near Sausalito, a pair of hikers discovered the body of William
...opaque tale about a dandified dreamer who cannot figure out whether he killed his wife in a nightmare or in cold blood. Death Kit is much the same. The hero is a junior executive named Diddy, and the question is, Did he, while traveling on a train, butcher an innocent railroad workman? Diddy is sure he did it; yet a blind girl near by who hears all and who proves to be on target about everything else, says he never left his seat. But most of the time Diddy's deed seems the least of the author...
Along with its music and anecdotal flow, his verse had the Whitmanesque "barbaric yawp," as in "Chicago" ("Hog butcher of the world"). Sandburg could also lilt a form of American haiku...
...splinters of electronic music, or a description of the circumcision rites of remote African tribes described by a dry, rustling voice like the crumbling of yellowed paper." On the city's famed markets in the fall: "Rows of hare-gray, attenuated Gothic sculptures-cling to the portals of butcher shops, flanked by pheasants whose brilliant tail feathers swing and whip in the breeze...