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A law enforcement official previously told The Times the boy suffered “massive injuries,” including a broken jaw, fractured ribs and a lacerated liver.

"I broke my toe, five ribs, I lacerated my spleen, and I've got a big hole in the back of my leg that got badly infected," she said.

He left the room, returning with a metronome whose loud, mechanical clicking lacerated the otherwise-fine mood being created by a Bach record on the turntable.

Despite those assurances, she and her agency have been the subject of lacerating critiques from Carter, the federal judge.

One of the most lacerating fictional critiques of the American dream remains the song “Remember My Forgotten Man” and its accompanying set piece in Busby Berkeley’s “Gold Diggers of 1933.”