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Word: cleaver (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eldridge Cleaver, former Black Panthers leader: "Carter has turned his back on [black Americans and] has become the laughing stock of the international community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 3, 1980 | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...film. D.W. Griffith's epic Intolerance (1916), which blended parables from four epochs into a "film fugue," bombed at the box office; so Griffith extracted and recut two of the stories and released them as separate films. Too soon, producers were applying the cleaver of their judgment to good films and bad, all in the name of "giving the public what it wants." The public, it was implied, did not want to see the complete, two-hour version of Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons-so 43 minutes were cut, never to be seen again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: No, but I Saw the Rough Cut | 8/18/1980 | See Source »

...count. Its views were stated with unnerving energy and conviction; the prose was tight; the suburban settings had the authentic odor of nylon pile, and the characters were quivering chunks torn from the author's own life. Her soul on ice, Marilyn French sounded like a feminist Eldridge Cleaver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anguish Artist | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

...Golden Knights gave Lau little time to get settled in the twins, scoring the first goal of the game just 1:21 into period one when Bryan Cleaver tucked the puck in behind Lau's pads for the only goal of the period...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Clarkson Dumps Icemen, 7-3; Loss Concludes 7-11-3 Season | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

...ever. Menelaus is ready to butcher her for adultery, but he is so afraid of Helen's siren sway that he does not look at her. Silkily, she makes her excuse. She was in the power of Aphrodite-her will was not her own. Menelaus' meat-cleaver hand drops, Helen sashays away, whistling in sultry triumph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Olympus on the Thames | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

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