Word: slaughtering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agents prowling through the country to persuade suspicious farmers to plow under one-quarter of their crops for cash payments of $6 to $20 an acre. If destroying newly planted crops seemed to violate every American tradition-and it did-Wallace was even more furiously criticized for deciding to slaughter 6 million baby pigs rather than let them grow to full size. The son of Calvin Coolidge's Agriculture Secretary, an eminent plant geneticist and an idealist with presidential aspirations, Wallace was as appalled as anyone by the butchery. It reflected not the ideals of "any sane society...
...White's lovely fable Charlotte's Web, the literate spider Charlotte saves a pig named Wilbur from execution by spinning blurbs about him in the barn doorway: SOME PIG, RADIANT, and so on. The astonished farm folk put away their thoughts of slaughter; they no longer regard Wilbur as pork, but as a tourist attraction, and even a celebrity who enjoys the favor of higher powers. Sweet Wilbur will survive to grow old in the barnyard. He gratefully sighs, "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer...
...city of Leon in the final days of the revolution--reenacted with the eager aid of dozens of actual participants--has its share of melodrama, certainly. And the drama is poorly developed, really just one episode after another. But the director drives home one crucial point: short of wholesale slaughter, there seems no way of stopping a popular revolution in a small country. The few National Guardsmen who must "control" Leon, in reality control only the garrison in the center of the city, and the radius of automatic fire around their heavily armed vehicles. Sooner or later, by defection...
...product of the poor woman supervisor whose arteries the Shape has skillfully tapped. He just keeps coming, walking through thick glass doors, bullet after bullet pumped into him. On his way to the hospital he spies a buxom cheerleader type on her porch and takes a quick detour: the slaughter in this movie is Pavlovian...
...hours as two choirs intoned a hymn to the new saint (We glorify you, O Martyred Tsar), and gazed at a new icon commissioned for the canonization. It features Nicholas, Alexandra, and their offspring Alexis, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and the elusive Anastasia, who some observers feel survived the family slaughter. For the first time, the faithful prayed not for Nicholas' soul, but for his intercession in their behalf, as a friend of God. For the new St. Nicholas, toppled from one of the earthly realm's most powerful thrones, it was quite a comeback...