Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show with a more bizarre finale. Coppola, while creating progressively weirder war scenes, runs dry before he reaches his crucial imaginative leap: Kurtz's fastidiously designed compound looks as tame as a set in an oldtime jungle horror movie. His murder, which is archly intercut with the ritual slaughter of a carabao, is the film's only poorly shot death scene. Apocalypse Now's much talked-about discarded ending - another air raid - would not have illuminated this murk...
...words, others affiliated with the New Right are attempting to organize single-interest groups against Church. A new antiabortion group called Stop the Baby Killers, with Idaho Congressman George Hansen as honorary chairman, describes Church, Culver and Bayh as "men who apparently think it's perfectly okay to slaughter unborn infants." In fact, Church favors a constitutional amendment that would outlaw abortion in most circumstances. He is also opposed to controls on firearms. But the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, a national group with an active chapter in Idaho, finds him wanting. Says...
...only journalist to accompany the group was TIME Senior Editor Stefan Kanfer, author of The Eighth Sin, a fictional account of the Nazi slaughter of European gypsies. His report of the journey...
...individual basis, each of the dismissals was not surprising; a few had been long expected. But the sum total of them, and Carter's wholesale slaughter approach, damaged the brave new leader image he is trying so hard to create. At the very announcement of the mass resignations, Washington was rocked by rumors, the dollar plunged around the world, and America's friends abroad asked ever more worried questions about what the President was attempting to achieve, and at what risk to America's stability. Across the U.S., a people who had at first been bewildered by the President...
...single spring training on the big league roster before being sent down again to Class AA. "My biggest thrill was when I got into a game and somebody popped the ball up behind second base. I went back for it, and all of a sudden, I heard Enos Slaughter call me off the ball. I got out of the way and let him catch it. It was thrill enough just to be called off by a guy like that...