Word: knife
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That woman," said fastidious Dr. Yves Evenou of his unlovely mistress Simone Deschamps one day last week, "horrifies me." The doctor's horror was easy enough for the police to understand, for Simone had just plunged a knife into the breast of his wife Marie-Claire, and Marie was dead. This was the truth but not, it turned out, the whole truth...
...governments are condemned to the guillotine from the moment they are voted into power. French Premiers are like men in death row, continuously making appeals (votes of confidence), living from one reprieve to another, loudly proclaiming their innocence but secretly accepting the inevitable, wondering and worrying when the big knife will fall...
...does not seem to know the first thing about a satiric operation. As Lady Mary Wortley Montagu explained the technique: "Satire should, like a polished razor keen/ Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen." She also described Kazan's method: "Thine is an oyster knife, that hacks and hews;/ The rage, but not the talent, to abuse...
...such scenic wonders of TV as the reason-why-sell, the inverse commercial, the collective think, the built-in crowd. He also provides some hilarious examples of TV shoptalk ("Great show. J.B." "Ye-e-es, I think it had size"). And all the while he is sinking the oyster knife into his victim, who loves nothing in the world so much as power-above all the power to make people crawl...
Twist of the Knife. Looking hopefully at this dissension amongst the Tories, the Labor Party moved to the attack in Commons, proposing a vote of censure against the government's Suez policy. With cool remorselessness, Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell ticked off the consequences of the Suez war-"the blocking of the canal, the cutting of the pipelines, the strain on the pound, the introduction of petrol rationing,* the check to industrial expansion, a tremendous blow to our reputation in the world." The upshot, needled Gaitskell, was that "we are now forced to accept [from Egypt] terms far worse than...