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The family resemblance among his collages and those being made concurrently by artists in Germany, France, and even the United States provides a bracing example of what is meant by a Zeitgeist --in a time of shaky and sluggish telecommunications, several dozen widely separated artists all hit at once on the idea of chopping up whatever printed ephemera lay at hand and reassembling the fragments into dynamic compositions that reassigned their meaning.
There are a lot of better things to put energy into than chopping down the work of a writer who worked at the trade honorably and industriously for 50-odd years without getting any of the recognition many of us believe she richly deserved.
But Anthony Hopkins, playing the film's mad vampire hunter, seems to put more store in chopping off heads than impaling hearts.
the great dead mallow ready for chopping springs purple flowers
More important, no mention has been made of the possibility of chopping the answer into convenient pieces which are separately represented in the clue by anagrams, synonyms, etc.