Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Much to Mourn. Europe had much to mourn too. France, heading toward what now promises to be a knife-edge election, could well emerge with a left wing President at odds with the Gaullist majority in the National Assembly. It would then become the latest addition to the Continent's already long list of sickly, shaky democracies. That list includes minority or coalition governments in Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium and Britain...
...that bitch. I still get confused when I try to remember the day I caught them together. That puta and my Frankie in our bed, while the baby crawled, crying on the floor. Everything was red then too -only it gets mixed up, screaming, the kitchen drawer, the silver knife. And the red again-on the sheets, the wall, my hands, his face, her legs, even mijo's diaper turned red-ha, ha, the red bed -"Shut-up old woman, why are you yelling in my head? SHUT...
...England. From time to time, the characters explain that they are at least more honest than England's unpunished rich people, but mostly they're too busy trying to sell each other out. At the end, Macheath the highwayman--the original of Weill's and Brecht's Mack the Knife, in their updated Threepenny Opera--stands with a rope around his neck while a beggar-narrator explains that for strict poetical Justice he'll have to be hanged and all the other characters hanged or transported, but that as in operas it doesn't matter how absurdly things turn...
...says, afraid of "annihilation, of being surrounded by what is hostile, of loss and of being lost." The test that he devised for himself was formidable. Equipped with little more than a knife, a badly calibrated sextant and a crash course in Arabic, he planned to cross from the Atlantic to the Nile, a journey of 3,600 miles that had never been completed by a traveler alone...
...where Republicanism is considered next to godliness, the Democrats emphasized how far the idols had fallen. In one campaign ad, a metalworker complained about the low income tax that Nixon paid. Republicans were also disturbed by Nixon's meager church contributions. With an adroit twist of the political knife, Democrat VanderVeen said that Nixon should resign so that ever-popular Jerry Ford would become President. If Nixon did not leave office voluntarily, said VanderVeen, impeachment should go forward. POLITICS