Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with no major trouble. Millicent Martin, as the madam, has too many songs and becomes boring after the first act. The show runs about two and a half hours--far too long, particularly in the first act--and I suspect some of Ms. Martin's numbers will feel the knife in the near future...
They went under the knife. "Nobody is crazy in my little clone army," O'Day was saying, "I don't want any kooks. I don't need any kooks. Everyone is definitely playing with a full deck. People think we're all crazy...
...lightning strike and a corporation for a wind gust, it is easy to imagine tracking almost any mishap to some distant agency. Should owners of property on which there is a public passageway prohibit barefoot pedestrians or else assume liability for every stubbed toe? Must the manufacturer of a knife clearly label it as dangerous or else be vulnerable to damages for a kitchen worker's sliced finger? Could the designer of a dam be blamed if a voluntary swimmer drowned in a lake thus created...
...album is a fine bit of syncopated genealogy, running past the sophisticated musical abstractions of Beiderbecke (Flashes, In a Mist) into the knife-edge humor of a minstrel-show song like Nobody and the surprising sleight-of-hand pride in a "coon song" like Shine. The music passes right through Jelly Roll...
...chief of U.S. military observers in Yenan, and I had gone to the airstrip to see one of our rare weather-service planes arrive. But there was a second plane, and out of it descended a six-foot-three-inch character in American uniform and overcoat, the pants pressed knife-sharp, a silver-haired, bushy-mustached major general, whose chest was covered with ribbons from shoulder to rib cage. It was Hurley. Barrett, as senior American military officer, approached, looked the general up and down, offered the observation, "General, it looks as if you have a medal there for every...