Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worst state," so he led the way into what is probably the "worst county" in the "worst state." When he accompanied two Negroes to register at the Amite County courthouse, Moses was attacked on the street by a white, who hit him repeatedly with the butt end of a knife...
...time the girls get around to their really lethal mischief, one wielding a flatiron, the other a kitchen knife, the audience is too sated with lunacy and violence to absorb any message-except possibly to beware of sleep-in maids...
...shame"-as this kind of murder is called -more effective, it is carried out by a hand-wielded instrument such as a dagger, which is then handed to the police, dripping with blood. Maria's fate should have been sealed by her father with a meat-carving knife in the dining room, where he first heard of the soiling of his honor...
...Knife in hand, he finds himself standing over the mother's bed, but he cannot kill her in her sleep. When she wakes, shrieking, he jumps on her and they fight, tearing one another's clothes until "her mouth found my nipple, my left nipple, and tore it away. That was the moment I sank the blade into her throat . . . Her blood spurted all over my face. It was warm as a soft belly and tasted like the blood of a lamb...
...pornography, Drive, He Said is serious as all get out. Most of its fun is unintentional. Thus, in one chapter, Basketball Player Hector Bloom and his chick Olive spend a busy evening nuzzling each other outside a diner, are chased over hill and dale by a Cadillac jammed with knife-wielding apists (strangely, they seem to be baddies), make passionate love to celebrate their escape. Then Hector, "in his last thought before he curled into the grip of deepest sleep, yearned for the clean true feel of a basketball." UNFINISHED FUNERAL by Nicco Tucci. 192 pages. Simon & Schuster...