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Word: knifing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City's Museum of Modern Art, has a human ear on its cover. And indeed, no show was ever noisier. Go in, and you hit a wall of sound, all disagreeable: moanings and groanings; the prolonged squeak of something being dragged over a hard surface, like a knife on a plate; repetitious rock drumming; voices reciting mantra-like inanities; and (in its own room full of TV monitors titled Clown Torture) the hoarse voice of Nauman, dressed as a clown, in a baggy suit of vertical stripes that slyly recalls the garb of concentration-camp prisoners, shrieking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEING A NUISANCE | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

Grant's crime was particularly gruesome. She bludgeoned her mother to death, striking her in the head 13 times with a lead crystal candlestick and crushing her skull. Thereafter, she and her boyfriend mutilated the body, inserting a knife into the dead woman's neck in an effort to make her death appear to be a suicide, and nearly severing her spinal cord...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Correct In Rejecting Grant | 4/12/1995 | See Source »

...call beating a woman's head to a bloodypulp 13 times with a lead crystal chandelier thensticking a knife through her neck to the spinalcord brutal, I'd say that's pretty brutal," Myerssaid...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Grant Case Sparks National Debate | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

...mother forbade her from seeing theboyfriend, the boyfriend would slip into the houseevery night after [her mother] went to sleep,"Myers said. Hook, who attempted to help Mayfield'sdeath appear to be a suicide by inserting acarving knife in the dead woman's neck, pleadaccessory to the murder and served nearly a yearin a juvenile corrections facility...

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Grant Case Sparks National Debate | 4/10/1995 | See Source »

...character, Peter Prideau, a Peabody Professor of Christian Morals over at the Divinity School, inadvertently discovers a demon while fiddling with new software called "Cybernectromantics." Desperate to see his deceased wife, Laura, once more, Prideau makes a deal with the demon, nicking his finger with the proffered Swiss army knife and bartering his soul for a meeting with his beloved...

Author: By Danielle E. Kwatinetz, | Title: Brustein's Demons Bedeviled by Actors | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

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