Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adelbert Gionet, a SAC plane commander for eleven years, carries toothbrush and mouthwash along, as well as a surgical needle and catgut ("If I ever rip any of me, I want to be able to put myself together"), and a flask of whisky. They all carry knives, since a knife has proved to be the most durable and versatile survival weapon...
...just a little more to crow about than the followers of Frankie Avalon or the Fabian societies. Yet Darin has made six LP albums that have sold more than 1,500,000 copies. His trademark single recordéa driving version of Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife-has sold more than 2,000,000 copies. He has all the bookings he can handle in America's major nightclub principalities from Las Vegas to Miami Beach. He has signed nearly $2,000,000 worth of Hollywood film contracts. Moreover, he has been all over television, from Ed Sullivan...
Even more startling is the picture that emerges of the Soviet police as either numskulls or brutes. Two unlovely types are the Cheka plainclothesmen: Boiko, with his dimples and "effeminate, rosy cheeks," and Khizhnak, who has a knife scar running from ear to chin and has been known, during an "interrogation." to gouge out the eye of a suspect. Both are murdered by White officers who prove gentlemanly enough to spare the Cossack driver: "Several shots had been sent after him, but evidently more in order to frighten him than to hit him, for he said they whistled high above...
From Shylock to Svengali is a complete, sensitive, well written and valuable work. The only question which Rosenberg does not take up is why the Shylock myth has managed to persist. What repressed fears is society acting out in its persistent creation of the knife bearing villain? Rosenberg says, "I am aware . . . that literary conventions can tell us only so much about a subject which is, as bottom, impenetrable...
...never been an action painter, spontaneous and impetuous: he feels that the New York school too often confuses facility with freedom. Up at 6:30 each morning, Downing paints with razor and palette knife, turning out rough-textured canvases that resemble nothing on earth...