Word: miniholocaust
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...BUTCHER BOY In a provincial 1960s Irish town, an emotionally starved child feeds his imagination on crud culture and warped religiosity, then innocently creates a miniholocaust. Arson, murder, madness--Neil Jordan transforms it all into a bruising metaphor for the larger violence of our times...
...topic three days before deadline and then digging madly into archives, her memory and notebooks. Sitting at a baroque table cluttered with books and papers, she dashes off her piece with a pen. She never rereads or edits it. "When I begin my research, I hope for a miniholocaust or a broken leg or something so I won't have to do the column. When it's over, I feel like I'd been through childbirth. But then I hate every other kind of work, too." Divorced, she lives with her 14-year-old daughter...
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