Word: rooster
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...there are upheavals of every kind: spiritual, geological, corporeal, romantic, ethical, political. An earthquake rocks the Japanese capital, while beggars shiver in the cold. Anticipatory lovers throb with desire in the shadowed alleyways of "Trumpet Shells." In "The Offering," a young boy who kills an old red rooster for no good reason is wracked by guilt and fevers. In "Scarecrow," a dissolute husband jounces his wife's pregnant belly with a spiteful kick. Elsewhere, villagers are stricken with tuberculosis, malaria or opium withdrawal. But at least they're alive, unlike the unnamed refugee from the North whose worm-riddled corpse...