Word: slicings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Murdoch's TV dreams will cost him a well-known slice of his American fief. Federal Communications Commission rules bar a newspaper publisher from owning a TV station in the same city. Thus Murdoch will have to sell both the New York Post, a screeching tabloid partial to news of crime, sex and the latest lottery winner, and the more sedate Chicago Sun-Times. To raise cash for the Metromedia deal, Murdoch is also seeking a buyer for the Village Voice, the leftish Manhattan weekly that nearly always was at odds with its owner's conservative politics (asking price...
...flesh you so fancifully fry is not so succulent, tasty or nice it's death for no reason and death for no reason is MURDER and the calf that you carve with a smile is MURDER and the turkey you so festively slice is MURDER...
...chiseled, Alvarez was struck by a configuration of sediment layers, which resembled a sandwich in stone. The bottom or older layer consisted of Cretaceous limestone, which was full of tiny fossils. On top was a second slice of limestone, from the Tertiary period, almost devoid of these fossils. Like other samples of rock from that era, it showed that the creatures alive during the late Cretaceous period had, by geological time scales, suddenly disappeared. In between the limestone layers was a dull red layer of clay about half an inch thick, first discovered by an Italian paleontologist around...
...Sure Thing (Sack Copley Place). In real colleges all across the country, real students are enjoying themselves with luscious blondes or fleeing to Southern California. One identifies with Henry V and Jimmy Stewart, but Dewitt is positively drawn to John Cusack as the woebegotten freshman in this charming slice of life instead of running down pedestrians or searching for his identity. Dewitt saw this movie and wanted to hitchhike to L.A. and take just three or four courses a semester...
...Werther: "Charlotte, having seen his body/ Borne before her on a shutter,/ Like a well-conducted person,/ Went on cutting bread and butter." Charlotte was a lady after the author's art. Let violence and fatuities pass in review; the well-conducted Mary McCarthy will watch and then slice them into appropriate pieces. Books and events have always been her bread and butter...