Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slaughter goes on. The death toll of 248 so far this year is already greater than during all of 1975. But the women's peace march is so hopeful a movement that a group of Norwegian newspapers has launched a campaign to raise $150,000 to give Williams and Corrigan a "people's peace prize" (the official Nobel committee decided last week not to award the peace prize this year). Said Williams: "The money would make one of my dreams come true. I would like to see a massive recreation center in Belfast. I feel our children have...
...grandparents of present-day Southerners were occupied by a vicious army of their countrymen; they were told that they had less rights than black people who were once slaves; they had to face up to a brain-cleaving guilt: the young men of the region had begun a slaughter that resulted in nothing, killing other members of a national family and gaining simple retribution in return. The bitterness remains, even now, as a legacy. Ask someone from, say, Barnwell County, South Carolina about the War Between the States; he or she might tell you that if only Hooker had been...
...DeGenova MG 35 Lou Bernieri 66 Sam Stepney RT 77 Steve Kaseta 58 Mitch McKeller RE 91 Bob Baggott 57 Tony Danckert LB 30 Joe Jason 51 Tom Furino LB 55 Tommy Joyce 30 Jerome Easton LCB 23 Bill Emper 14 Bruce Rich S 17 Paul Halas 5 Mike Slaughter ADJ 18 Lou Rice 24 Frank Nigro RCB 41 Andy Puopolo
...pursuit, a television falls and she has to thrust her arms defenselessly behind her head to keep the set from smashing. Even this bit may upset some, and the over-all tenor of the film is probably exemplified better by a bizarre "dance" of beef carcasses in a slaughter house, done to an operatic score. The entire image suggests Wertmuller's perverse opinion of her characters, and it certainly shows the possibilities of fervid imagination pitted it now seems clear after five features, against an all but non-existent sense of discrimination...
...Ritual Slaughter. What is wrong here-very wrong-is the dreary familiarity of the theme, the reworking, still again, of English working-class desperation, the sour brutality of the language, which often sounds too toplofty and aphoristic for the people speaking it ("I'm an apostolic alcoholic." "Marriage is one of the few surviving forms of ritual slaughter...