Word: cheesecloth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tony Clifton. Odd as this is, it's nothing on Kaufman. Apparently, when Kaufman was in character as the lizardly Clifton, he would eat food like red meat that the comic, who was a vegetarian, wouldn't normally touch. After such binges, Kaufman would occasionally eat a length of cheesecloth to purge himself. (It's a yoga thing, evidently.) According to USA Today, Carrey was explaining this to new buddy Elton John, who was so amused he sent the comedian some cheese, red wine and packets of cheesecloth. No word yet on whether Carrey partook...
Will evil be transferred along with good and installed in the stainless personoid? Or can the scientists sift the soul through a kind of electronic cheesecloth and remove all the ancient evil traces, the reptilian brain, the lashing violence, the tribal hatred, the will to murder? Will the killer be strained out of the soul? Will the inheritance of Cain be left to wither and die with the human husk, the useless flesh...