Word: shiv
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also attacks politicians. He claims that Senator Edward Kennedy "rehearsed" his chilly handshake with Carter at the 1980 Democratic National Convention, and depicts former New York Governor Hugh Carey and New York City Mayor Edward Koch as "ingrates.. . hat in one hand, shiv in the other...
...draw blood, it is perhaps because Trillin, now a New Yorker staff writer, seems to be writing benevolently with his nose pressed against the office window, looking in. For good or ill, satire requires both savagery and familiarity. The amiable Trillin has been away too long to give the shiv a final twist...