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...strides and chops as energetically as the Smith College basketball player she once was-though to stay at 170 Ibs. she is a periodic Scarsdale Dieter. Out to stalk the wild mushroom, equipped with topee, stout stick, a yellow slicker and blue New Balance sneakers, she slogged through viscous mud that bogged down her party's four-wheel-drive Bronco, gathering a basketful of the yellow, peppery, precious ($8 per Ib.) chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius) that had been prodigally "planted" on the scene that morning...
GANCE'S TREATMENT of the Victims' Balls, spontaneous explosions of frenetic relief sweeping though the prisons at the end of the Revolution, frames the orgiastic celebration in a series of viscous pink images. Exuberance at surviving the horror strips the victims of social convention. Prudence gives way to prurience. Bodies flow across the screen, men indistinguishable from women, limbs distorted in ecstasy. Yet, the pink tinting and writhing limbs make these survivors somewhat less human than the head on a pole that we believed to be still the part of a whole. This unwholesome rapture has none of the humanity...
...When they finally did get helicopters, repeated mechanical failures led some Californians to joke that the choppers were leftovers from the ill-fated hostage rescue mission in Iran. Pilots and ground crews were unaccustomed to the spraying procedures and slow to adapt to the use of the viscous pesticide solution, which tended to clog pumping equipment. It was not until the end of the week that more than two helicopters were aloft at the same time. Observed a U.S. Department of Agriculture official: "I think Murphy's Law has taken over, because everything that could go wrong...
...ingredients become short white fibers. Freeze-dried and vacuum treated to remove moisture, the fibers form a light and highly porous white sheet of material, which is placed in an oven at a high temperature. The topmost layer, equivalent to the epidermis, is made by bonding a viscous plastic onto the cowhide-shark sheet. The completed skin is then freeze-dried and stored in sterile, closed containers at room temperature...
...idol, the mythical pure-of-heart to keep holding out against the compromises Browne himself has made. Both statement and plea are delivered with the trademark wry sincerity that has for five previous albums saved Browne's deep-hitting croon and crack lyric from choking outright on some very viscous sentiment...