Word: monstering
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...does not, and is at some pains to make clear that her experiments in written speech-simple rhythms, using repetition and echo for subtle psychological effects ran parallel with his own. Hemingway's sketch of her is a masterpiece of controlled malice in which she appears as a monster of obtuse egotism presiding over her manless menage as over a shrine dedicated to herself, served by Miss Alice B. Toklas and dominated by Pablo Picasso's portrait of herself...
...costs by about 15% from the present $10,000 a year per patient, Engineer Lars Grimsrud told the artificial-organ enthusiasts, is to use a central, 150-gallon tank of purifying fluid instead of individual, 100-gallon tanks for each patient. In the central tank of the "monster," as the Seattle machine is called, the fluid is highly concentrated, and the machine dilutes it with as much as 35 times its own volume of water to get the right mixture for each patient. Patients still have personalized equipment at their bedsides: pumps to deliver the right amount of fluid from...
...University Hospital, doctors have already used "the monster" for as many as three patients at once...
...acknowledged masterpiece was Mysterion," built by Ed ("Big Daddy ) Roth, who owns a shirt factory m May wood, Calif. One of the most revered fast-iron designers in the US Roth spent $12,000 putting together this machine monster. It has built-in hi-fi and television, huge maximum-traction tires behind and narrow motorcycle tires up front. Its two Ford Thunderbird engines develop 1,000 h p and every cylinder is wrapped in bright chrome...
...tackle big niarlin and sailfish, and each spring the river mouths along Costa Rica's Caribbean coast are choked with spawning snook and tarpon-so thick that thousands can sometimes be seen roiling the surface of the water. Where the school fish congregate, so do the predators-monster sawfish, and sharks, sharks, sharks. Using only hand lines, fishermen of the Caribbean village of Colorado last year caught 1,800 sharks in less than three months-and shipped the livers to Chinese medicine makers on Formosa...