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Word: cleaver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unrelenting attentions of one of her students. Werner at least displays a studied visual flair, a good, strict sense of film rhythm and a willingness to give his actors generous creative space. All these qualities were absent from Sunday Funnies, the program's third installment, a meat-cleaver satire about prom night in the '50s that had all the wit and technical finesse of a stag reel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: More a Famine than a Festival | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

WHEN GEORGE WALLACE ran against Albert Brewer for governor of Alabama in 1970, no one expected he'd have to use a meat cleaver to win. But there is no Marquis of Queensbury in Southern politics, Brewer got a little too close for comfort, and pretty soon Alabama voters were being handed pamphlets with doctored photographs of Brewer in between Elijah Muhammad and Muhammad Ali. Pretty soon word went around that Albert Brewer's two daughters were pregnant with black babies. Pretty soon Albert Brewer was back practicing law in Montogomery...

Author: By Peter Kaplan, | Title: Governor Lonelyhearts | 3/9/1976 | See Source »

...sort of expected to see this guy brandishing a meat cleaver and wearing a string of shrunken heads around his waist," Jim Hayden '77, the head of this year's student advisory board, says. The board knew all about Malek, of course--about his responsiveness program and his appearances before the Senate Watergate Committee's closed sessions--and they were conscious of the controversy Malek might arouse. "But we found Malek really isn't like we expected; he's very competent in management and makes a good impression," Hayden says. "We thought things would go all right...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Mr. Malek Comes to Harvard | 3/3/1976 | See Source »

...Eldridge Cleaver? At least he had the guts to say "I was wrong -and America has lots going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 22, 1975 | 12/22/1975 | See Source »

...October on the slogan OUT OF THE MAINSTREAM AND INTO THE REVOLUTION. Argues Brandeis Professor Mordeca Jane Pollock, 34, one of the moderate dissidents: "If you have any political sense, you don't talk about revolution in America today. We've grown up. Look at Eldridge Cleaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Womenswar | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

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