Word: hatcheteering
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University of Delaware Professor Charles Leslie says he left NYU because he found the situation to be intolerable. "I had known him at Chicago, and I thought that even though he was difficult it would be all right. However, it soon became obvious that he was out to hatchet...
Zanio, who works as a carpenter, took a hatchet from her car trunk and started to smash the snowwoman, but fled when Barnett rushed out of his house. "We had her arrested to let people know they can't go hacking things down," says Barnett. Last week Zanio was charged with disorderly conduct; she could face a $200 fine...
...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...