Word: hatchet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...criticisms clearly stung. Since 1976 Dole has worked hard to shed the hatchet-man image. "I've done a lot of soul searching," he says. "I think a lot of the criticism was unfounded. I don't dislike people. I'm a very friendly person, not mean or vicious. But you take a look at how you're perceived, and obviously you don't want that perception." Friends agree that since his marriage to Elizabeth, he has mellowed, replacing the hatchet with a stiletto. As often as not these days, he makes himself the butt of his own jokes. Reflecting...
...dialogue is spiced with occasional shots of black humor, all based on our exclusive knowledge that behind the smiling stepdad exterior lurks a raging psycho. Family Number Two is struggling for a reconciliation, and the Stepfather suggests, "C'mon, honey let's bury the hatchet." Gulp. But all you slasher-thrasher fans out there be warned. The Stepfather would rank low on Joe-Bob Briggs boobs'n'blood scale; this is suspense you bozos: protracted anticipation laced with adrenaline, not gory gratification every six and a half minutes, Friday the 13th-style...
...network has drawn especially heavy criticism for "Amerika's" depiction of dark-skinned United Nations troops as Soviet hatchet men. "God knows it was never our intention to say, `the U.N. is like that,'" said Butler...
...what we have is a sort of unholy alliance between the left-leaning media and Big Media against Adler, The New Yorker, the military and Big Law. William Safire, The New York Times' resident right-winger, also got into the act recently. He gave the "offended media giants, radical hatchet men and suing spooks" 40 lashes with a wet noodle for suppressing publication of her book--something media-types, he said, should be the last...
...been a man of rare civility and rotten luck. His 1981 Cincinnati Reds won more games than any other team but were gerrymandered right out of the play-offs by a labor strike and a split season. "I will never forget that until the day I die," said the hatchet-faced former minor league catcher, whose memory came into play...