Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California. Supporters of the cut argued that the house is unnecessarily cumbersome and costly; opponents, who predictably included legislators, labor leaders and lobbyists, said that cutting back representation would eliminate some of the best lawmakers and minority party representatives. Noted one opponent: "This is surgery with a butcher knife...
...intelligence shines through her friendly, angular, leonine face (a gift from her mother, Janet Leigh, who pioneered the modern horror trend 20 years ago by taking a bloodbath in Psycho). Thus when she flees into a dark closet or abandoned sleeping car-where, of course, the evil one waits, knife at the ready-she must have a logical reason. She does: to act as avatar of the movie audience's delicious vulnerability. Also to reap big bucks for the merchants of low-budget menace who have revamped an honorable film formula...
...left his jacket and knife at the site, which the Boston police used--along with the assaulted woman's identification of his photograph--to make the arrest...
...battle hits her in the stomach, killing the child in her womb. Realizing what he has done, for the first time Alekos cries out for forgiveness, saying that he has had enough suffering. She remembers "that mad monologue, sweet, wondrous, heart-rending, as the blows of the knife increased in number and intensity and remorse for not having told you before you silenced me, the remorse for not having realized that a child would have been the only rival for your fate...
Where is the grapefruit knife...