Word: butchering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...costumes played spectators, witnesses, judges and, of course, the King. Only the lawyers for both sides wore modern clothes -- time travelers of sorts. The defense attorney was Jacques Verges, well known for another unpopular case: last year he was chief counsel for former SS Commander Klaus Barbie, "the Butcher of Lyons," who was convicted of crimes against humanity during the Nazi occupation. Verges' spirited argument last week, that Louis XVI was a victim of circumstances, fared better...
...even considered calling the Reading Barbershop Quartet and asking them to sing to me over the phone. I finally lost interest after asking in vain for the story of the oil portrait of George Rubin (founder of the store), which was hanging over the meat counter; the butcher boy seemed surprised to see it up there...
This is not, Marcel Ophuls insists, a biography of the notorious "Butcher of Lyons," convicted by a French court in 1987 of crimes against humanity as chief of the Gestapo unit stationed in that city during World War II. The film is, Ophuls says, a study of people's responses -- the complicity, the indifference, the willed ignorance -- to the face of evil presented to them by Klaus Barbie...
...thought I'd died and gone to heaven." George Bush, out of Kennebunkport and Houston, out of Andover and Yale, had a little mountain twang in his voice when he said it, standing in twill trousers and a cowboy shirt. Loretta Lynn, the coal miner's daughter out of Butcher's Hollow, Ky., told the crowd she loves George Bush " 'cuz he's country...
...Lwin, 64, as its new leader; the next day parliament named him the country's President. A retired army general, Sein Lwin is the longtime head of the dread riot police, the Lon Htein, and one of Burma's most feared men. He lived up to his nickname "the Butcher" when he ruthlessly suppressed student riots earlier this year...