Word: slaughterers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug for routine use before shipment, but still bans it immediately before slaughter on the chance that some of the steer's contentedness might be passed on to the customer...
...sometime Communist sympathizer, turned up garbed in a grey overcoat and moccasins, argued that "one has to distinguish between political crime and terrorism. Terrorism, practiced to inspire fear, despises human life. The political killer demonstrates his respect for human life when he seeks, by killing, to avoid vast slaughter. Remember Charlotte Corday [who stabbed Marat in his bath]. All the French are proud of what...
...that yowling about Laika gave me a pain. Do these dog lovers know that every day in our own grand and glorious country thousands of poor, worn-out old horses are driven up ramps to the slaughter-to provide food for their lousy pets...
...Laurence Olivier's brasher, more youthful performance in 1948, Gielgud's version is resigned, traditional, declamatory; but it emerges as a memorable reading. All in all, from the creepy wind sighings and distant bells on the battlements of Elsinore in the first scene to the swordplay and slaughter of the last act, this is a stirring and commendably complete production...
...Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (Universal) is the sort of stevedore special Hollywood has been serving up ever since On the Waterfront, when the moviemakers discovered that the public likes a pier with a yegg...