Word: knifing
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More a Ladle Than a Knife Weinberger's performance at the Pentagon earns poor reviews
...tapped Weinberger to be his state finance director. "My personal Disraeli," Reagan has called his aide. Weinberger left Sacramento less than two years later to join the Nixon Administration, where his budget-paring skills as Director of the Office of Management and Budget earned him the nickname "Cap the Knife." The two men, who have become warm personal friends over the years, mirror each other's qualities: a mellow California poise combined with a wide streak of stubbornness. The blend gives each man his air of serenity and self-assurance...
...home. For relaxation, he spends an occasional night out at the National Symphony and squeezes in a weekend trip now and then to his vacation home on Mount Desert Island in Maine. But some Reagan aides and G.O.P. Senators had hoped that he would live up to his knife-wielding reputation and, while rebuilding the nation's defense as Reagan wishes, still find savings in the Pentagon that would cut the budget deficit. Instead, Weinberger gave too much control of the budget to the individual services, then tended to accept all the major weapons on the Pentagon...
...also won't need complicated utensils--not even a measuring cup--just a fork, knife, and spoon...
This quirky collection is at once heartening and tragic. Almost every story in it is worth rereading, but the book is the last work of its editor, killed in a motorcycle accident 2½ months ago. For the most part shunning pieces that appeared in major periodicals ("all knife-flash, no blood"). Novelist John Gardner also sidelines such contemporary masters as John Updike, Donald Barthelme and Ann Beattie in favor of relative newcomers who display "a new seriousness...