Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...plot is arguably silly, though that is not always a bad thing in a musical. What is bad, however, is the fact that the show was clearly finished in haste. Sellon, who wrote last year's Pudding show A Little Knife Music, started A.W.O.L. as a Pudding show and once rejected, put it into independent production. Pudding shows are a genre unto themselves and defy analysis--but A.W.O.L. is a strange hybrid. It relies heavily on puns and innuendo for its humor, and yet it's not nearly as raunchy and satisfying as the annual transvestite theatrical. At the same...
...impulse, and handguns are perfectly responsive to the purpose: a blind red rage flashes in the brain and fires a signal through the nerves to the trigger finger - BLAM! Guns do not require much work. You do not have to get your hands bloody, as you would with a knife, or make the strenuous and intimately dangerous effort required to kill with bare hands. The space between gun and victim somehow purifies the relationship - at least for the person at the trigger - and makes it so much easier to perform the deed. The bullet goes invisibly across space to flesh...
Crimson: In previous positions you've gained a reputation as "Cap the Knife" and keeping a tight budget. How do you justify a $25 billion increase in the defense budget at a time when federal spending in human areas, including programs for Vietnam veterans, are being sharply curtailed...
...Congress. In that time, as I say, we've been able to make about $3.2 billion in savings, but we could do a lot more. Any organization that spends $222 billion dollars has got to have some waste in it, and that's what we're after. So the knife's just as sharp as ever...
Spawned by the success of Soldier of Fortune, Eagle (dedicated to "Adventure, Survival, Truth") covers the death-and-dying scene from the specific--"The Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife"--to the more general--"Holocaust Now!" It is chock full of "intelligence reports," including this "critical piece of intelligence from Washington, D.C." Just after the election of Ronald Reagan, a clandestine session was held near DuPont Circle in the nation's capital. At that meeting, the cream of the old radical circuit sat down to plan out the formation of an "anti-Reagan" movement, modeled on the anti-war movement of past...