Word: hatcheteer
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...after September's coup soldiers went through Santiago whitewashing walls as well as burning books and killing people they disliked. One of the 6000 prisoners in the National Stadium after the coup was a pro-Popular Unity singer, a man named Jarra. An officer in the stadium took a hatchet and cut off Jarra's fingers, according to a purportedly eyewitness account Kunzle reads, and Jarra fell to the ground. The officer kicked him. "Now sing, you motherfucker," he said. Jarra stumbled to his feet, said, "Comrades, let's give the bastards what they want," and, beating time with what...
Most neurosurgeons now' agree that the lobotomies which were performed in the thousands in the 1950's were hatchet jobs which invariably brought disastrous side effects. Present day psychosurgeons say that their surgery does not entail bad side effects because they destroy only small numbers of cells in localized parts of the brain. Opponents of psychosurgery say that neurologists still know too little about the brain and that performing these operations is, as State Senator Chester Atkins [D-Concord] has said, the equivalent of using a sledge hammer to tune a piano...
...hatchet man," says Edward ("Ted") Wilson, 53, who got the job last week, "but I have done more cleaning out of this place [before becoming president] than any of the past presidents...
...recent movies (The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid) have suffered box office anemia, and Grand Hotel cost overruns have been a continuing hemorrhage. Some Hollywood watchers report that, ironically, Kerkorian wanted to keep on cutting costs, but, in a major disagreement. Hatchet Man Aubrey saw that his empire was disappearing and thought that the chopping should stop. As Aubrey said last week: "The job I agreed to undertake has been accomplished...
...York magazine profile by Quinn's former Post colleague (and now former friend) Aaron Latham, she was portrayed as a sassy bundle of ambition who was more interested in capital sex than politics. Quinn called the story an "incredible hatchet job" and at tributed it to New York Editor Clay Felker's resentment because she recently turned down a job offer from him. According to Quinn, Felker said, "Sally, you were born to be a star, and you should have let me make you one," then slammed down the phone. Replies Felker: "Sally is a goddamn liar...