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After remarking on the low intellectual quality of his audience, Capp explained his technique: "I always write to people before I disembowel them." He says that one of the disemboweled, Liberace, sent him a Valentine which thrilled him. But Capp's main theme, however, was fluoridation, which he subtly orchestrated throughout the evening...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Capp on Politics Enlivens Forum; Vellucci Praised | 3/9/1957 | See Source »

...brittle Mayfair-in-suburbia life of spuriously gay Nairobi ; the purple-faced ex-colonels in the very, very particular Rift Valley Club- none of them seeming to know what to do. Not even the Mau Mau themselves seem to know what they really want-except to kill and disembowel as many whites, chiefs, head men, and non-Mau Mau Kikuyu as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAND OF MURDER & MUDDLE: A Report from Kenya | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...Rigidly monogamous, a pair of ostriches may spend their full 40-year adult life span together. Easily frightened, the birds, which can run at a 60 m.p.h. clip, sometimes cripple themselves dashing headlong into fences. But in the mating season a male ostrich will attack a man, can disembowel him with a single downward kick of his two-toed foot, whose claw is the size of a railroad spike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Feather Merchants | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

...process is not entirely simple. Saxon is a man of considerable charm, vitality and at least surface ability; but he is also something of a maniac. His mania is to charm, dominate and, if possible, destroy every person who falls within his spell. The little improvements he insists on disembowel Eric's play, and Eric himself is so helpless a victim of the charm that Mrs. Busch (nicely played by Susan Hayward) leaves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

What matter if children carve up a pumpkin and set a wobbly candle in the shell? But fear for your life if nations carve up the earth into spheres of influence. Beware the man or nation who tries to disembowel the One World which is the last refuge of our hopes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hallowe'en & Hiroshima | 10/31/1946 | See Source »

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