Word: knifings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other characters are all commentators on the tragedy. Each member of the triangle has a family that serves as a chorus. The Groom has a Mother (Rebecca Clark), who sees even in a harvesting knife a reminder of the deaths of her husband and elder of son, and the likelihood of a similar fate for her remaining son. Leonardo's Wife and his Mother-in-Law (Ashby Semple) sense Leonardo's increasing distance. The Bride has a Father(Daniel Hurewitz) and a Servant (Lisa Peers), who notices her strange reluctance as the wedding approaches...
...writes, and Ethan, 29, who writes and produces -- proved with their debut film, the gory melodrama Blood Simple, that they are shrewd filmmakers who can give a skewed spin to a hoary genre. Compared with their new effort, though, Blood Simple was just a five-finger exercise with a knife spiked through the hand. To their old fascination with Sunbelt pathology, to their side-winding Steadicam and pristine command of screen space, the Coens have added a robust humor, a plot that keeps outwitting expectations and a surprising dollop of sympathy for their forlorn kidnapers...
Anxieties are running highest at CBS, where the sharpest knife is being wielded. Over the past 18 months, some 150 of the CBS News division's 1,400 employees have lost their jobs. In January, Chief Executive Officer Laurence Tisch asked News President Howard Stringer to cut up to $50 million from this year's nearly $300 million budget. Stringer presented a plan to Tisch last week that called for about $30 million in savings. Within two days, he began firing more than 200 staffers, including about 20 of the division's 75 or so full-time correspondents...
Besieged by budget cuts and competition from cable and local stations, CBS, ABC and NBC are re- examining how they go about keeping Americans informed. The sharpest knife is being wielded at cbs, where more than 200 are being fired. Throughout the turmoil, network executives are most concerned about the quality -- and direction -- of their flagship evening news programs...
...autopsy report has confirmed that the knife wounds which proved fatal to a Princeton junior last month were self-inflicted, despite earlier suspicions that he may have been murdered, The Daily Princetonian reported late last month...