Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does much of TIME'S photographic work in the Detroit area. Once he had the assignment, Ed Bailey read up on automobile styling over a period of two months, digging into books and pamphlets and learning to toss off inside jargon like "Di-Noc" and "frisket knife." Before he took a picture, he spent five days at the four auto manufacturers' studios, testing lighting for color film and filters used under artificial light mixed with daylight. Then he worked for 22 days in the auto design centers with seven cameras carefully selected from...
...latest "husband," slopes through the shabby streets of Harlem day and night with a huddle of incipient hoods who call themselves the Pythons. Most of them are even younger than Duke, but all of them fight booze, smoke tea, use girls, snag purses and carry switchblades. A knife, alas, is not enough for Duke. He longs with mystical intensity to possess a gun: a scepter to define his will and a power to impose it upon the white man's world. The film describes how Duke fails to find the object of his obsession but discovers that a knife...
Lumbering frontier justice eventually caught up with the Harpes. Wiley was hanged and Micajah was shot. While Micajah was dying, a man whose family had been wiped out by the Harpes slowly cut off his head with a knife. "You're a God-damned rough butcher," gurgled Micajah, "but cut on and be damned...
...chip off the old block, was caught robbing by two farmers, was forced to leave the state. Years later he returned with a hefty bankroll and a beard. He decided to surprise the folks by not letting on who he was. Not recognizing him, Daddy cheerfully sank a knife into his back, fleeced him, and went to bed boasting to his wife. Next morning he learned his victim's identity from other outlaws. At least, Potts had the grace to shut down the tavern...
...companion piece on the program, Gloria and Lily by Ida Picker, takes a slice of a very different kind of life--a miserable restaurant in New York. Miss Picker's knife has a ragged edge, and she has produced an uneven piece...