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...lead singer of the Dead Boys gyrated in a rent pair of blue jeans occasionally flashing one pallid cheek to the congregation. As he crooned in a raspy baritone, he slid one hand into his pocket and drew out an enormous Bowie knife, which he held to the guitarist's throat in a skinnyboned imitation of a hard-ass punk. After picking his teeth with the knife, the Boy tired of that toy, only to pick out a new one for the next number: a pink plastic pleasure machine, with which he caressed his bony pelvis in mock ecstasy between...

Author: By Johanna T. Defenderfer, | Title: Iggy Meets Ziggy | 5/6/1977 | See Source »

...aura of political and technological complexity about this film, it still appears that Lindsay-Hogg and Enders used a butcher's knife to chop Spark's novel to pieces. Maybe Nixon should have gotten his hands on this film and erased is most tedious segments. Even if he only managed to cut out eight-and-a-half minutes, he would have saved a few souls from some of the unimpressed boredom that is this year's filmgoer's hell...

Author: By Hilary B. Klein, | Title: A Habit Worth Breaking | 4/25/1977 | See Source »

...convicted rapist and murderer who had just escaped from a nearby prison. Brandishing a three-foot board, Coker forced Mrs. Carver, who was still recovering from the birth of a son three weeks earlier, to help tie up her husband in the bathroom. That done, he grabbed a steak knife and assaulted her. He then took her with him as he fled in the Carver car. Sheriffs deputies captured him on a dead-end road a few hours later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Arguing About Death for Rape | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

Would things have been different at another school? Would he have gone through with an operation at a basketball school? Largely due to the scholarships, Kirkland feels that "more than likely I would have done everything I could have to play" even if that entailed getting the knife. He adds that he didn't give up easy here, though...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Chemical Benzene Rings Replace Basketball Rims | 3/30/1977 | See Source »

...radioactivity. Known in other places as Woman, Femme Fatale, the Temptress, she is a rough operatic equivalent of Don Giovanni. She consumes the men-and one lesbian-who love her, then is consumed by them and destroyed. She ends up as a streetwalker, and the final slash of the knife is delivered by none other than Jack the Ripper. Some stage directors choose to play up the trampy side of Lulu. Dexter has made her an innocent, totally unaware of the evil effect she has on those around her. In the process Dexter has robbed Lulu (and Farley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lulu and the Cinderella from Idaho | 3/28/1977 | See Source »

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