Word: vivisection
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...That home life, where father Charlie was off managing the Winnipeg Maroons hockey team and mother was clearly in charge, was so formative to Maddin that he's often recreated it in his films. Here, he decides "to vivisect his own childhood" by renting the old homestead for a month, casting actors as his three siblings and shooting scenes he remembers or imagines from his youth. Savage continues to impersonate his mother; his girlfriend's dog appears as Guy's long-dead pet chihuahua; and since, just before shooting starts, the woman who rented the place to Maddin decides...
...Peel and vivisect eggs...
...Karenina to Emma Bovary, the cheating woman pays a steep price for her unchecked sexuality: she winds up dead. "What if she were your best friend, or your sister?" Heyn challenges. "Would you still need to see her punished?" Heyn, it seems in her opening pages, is going to vivisect the biases that continue to hold women to a different sexual standard from men. Oh boy, I think with post-Murphy Brown glee. Dan Quayle is going to hate this book...
...Administration-have added attractiveness in that they are generally equitable and do not cater to any special interest group. Indeed, they are so similar in their fundamentals that the resulting legislation, if any, should satisfy just about everyone. If a good reform is passed, Congress won't have to vivisect any programs, Reagan won't have to raise taxes, and the public will finally see some indication that the deficit might shrink...
...tell. Some people thought the fact that the goldfish were swimming in rapid circles indicated that the found the LSD stimulating and pleasurable. Others thought indicated that the goldfish were losing their minds, having swallowed an overdose, and that in any case it was cruel and improper to vivisect goldfish in this manner. Still others said, in effect, that swimming in rapid circles is to goldfish what lying is to Mr. Ehrlichman: they may not do it well, but they do it often, and probably better than they do anything else. Therefore, these skeptics suggested, it was probable that...