Word: slit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...auspicious start for the coming year. On New Year's Eve, six people, all but one of them white, were killed in a spree of violence near Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city. In an especially gruesome incident, the throat of a 71-year-old farmer was slit ear to ear. Only days earlier, a pack of 15 to 20 armed men wearing green camouflage uniforms and animal-skin caps had halted traffic on the Bulawayo-Gweru Highway, spraying buses and cars with gunfire and then torching three of the vehicles. Three blacks died, and 21 were injured...
...rehearsal over, Levine meets with Director Franco Zeffirelli to talk about three new productions. Ninety minutes later, he is at home for a preperformance rest. By 6:30 p.m. he is back at the Met. Says City Opera's Beverly Sills: "I think I would slit my throat if I had to put on a long gown at the end of the day and go up onstage and sing. Switching gears is very hard, but Jimmy's handling it very well...
Then a young black woman lunged forward and slit his throat with a pocketknife. The victim, Dan Murek, 48, miraculously survived. Rosemary Usher Jones, a local judge, tried to keep driving after a concrete chunk smashed her car window, but was soon hemmed in by the mob. Said Jones, 53: "They ripped my rings off my fingers." She was pulled to safety by two black girls and by Willie Watkins, owner of the 14th Street video arcade, where the violence had begun...
Having scored that victory, the Iranians went no farther. Nor are they likely to. The reason: the broad, flat plain between the border and Amara is a maze of earthen walls and slit trenches. Hundreds upon hundreds of Soviet-built Iraqi tanks, armored personnel carriers, guns and rocket launchers dot the eerie landscape, each hunkered down behind its own earth revetment. If the Iranians attempted to move toward Amara, they would invite the same decimation that they received in five full-scale attacks last summer, when wave upon wave of poorly trained Islamic Guards rushed across the flood plain...
There are the expected encounters: a woman who finds the youth's awkward innocence sexually and emotionally attractive; the summer job that does not work out. For a few bewildering hours Daniel parades up and down a street dressed as a giant peanut, his view limited by a slit in an oversized bow tie. The papier-mache prison foreshadows future confinements, but it is also a rude distortion of a young body striving to know itself. At one point the young man stands naked before a mirror and attempts to sketch his reflection. But "he found it very difficult...