Word: slaughtering
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...excellent example of a "buzz word," designed to inflame rather than illuminate. There is no right to life in any society on earth today, nor has there been at any former time (with a few rare exceptions, such as among the Jains of India). We raise farm animals for slaughter; destroy forests; pollute rivers and lakes until no fish can live there; hunt deer and elk for sport . . . All these beasts and vegetables are as alive...
...only takes a second, says Jimmie Blacksmith's unwilling accomplices to the slaughter. You would think, he says, that you would have to think a lot before killing someone. But, he adds, it only takes a second...
...large crop, and the lower yield has already pushed prices above the $3-per-bu. level, vs. $2.45 for the same period last year. Ranchers, also suffering from the drought and fearing a hike in the price of their prime feedstuff, sent more of their cattle to slaughter earlier in the summer in order to save on feeding them. Initially, this depressed beef prices, but the long-term effect will be to deplete the herds, reduce supply and make meat more expensive later. The production of soybeans, another animal fodder, is off 19% this year, although prices paid...
Roberts meticulously picked apart Eagle Betty Quigley en route to a 6-2, 6-3 slaughter...
...eerieness of the final slaughter is heightened not only by its verisimilitude, but by the movie's one extraordinary performance. A young actor named Powers Boothe captures all the paranoia, sexual magnetism, hysteria, rage and even intelligence of "Dad" Jim Jones. His final incantations to the dyingdelivered in a feverish but strangely disembodied voicecreate a more deathly mood than all the corpses piling up onscreen. If Writer Tidyman had only matched Boothe's talent with a complexly written role, Guyana Tragedy would be as notable as drama as it is as ratings gambit...