Word: abbatoir
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...night. Hypochondria haunts him, plus a doom that has him in thrall: "A unit is lacking. An omission, a blank, a void that nobody but him knows about, thinks about, that, flagrantly, nobody wants to know or think about. A missing link." As "panicky as a pig in an abbatoir," Vowl awaits his karma...
...police station transformed into an abbatoir, not only is that scene frightening in its depiction of a totally callous and unemotional killer, it is even more disturbing in that the film does not care either. Never do we see the aftermath of Arnold's mayhem. Bodies fall out of the camera shot and out of mind as well--few screams, a little blood for color, no pain, no grief. The camera moves on to the next victim, like the gun barrel...
...4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, nothing is sacred because everyone is scared-of the incipient madness that seeps back from the front. Ring Lardner Jr.'s overlapping Catch-22-caliber scenes devour congruity as war devours youth. In the abbatoir of the operating room a surgeon saws off a leg while he begs a nurse to scratch his nose. The unit's greatest nurse chaser, Dentist Painless Waldowski, decides that Don Juanism is a cover-up for homosexuality. Better never than latent, he decides after a nontumescent night, and instantly opts for the Right Thing: suicide...
Today the Charles River cannot be advertised as a competitor for Poland Springs. Newton's municipal sewage has all been diverted, malarial mosquitoes of the genus anapholes have all been removed, and the Brighton abbatoir makes mucilage out of the hoofs. The only attraction left to the natator and nature student are colonies of algae and orange peels...
...Radcliffe. A tradition was passing. Worse, it had come to a pretty pass. Here, for how many years he did not know, the Vagabond had lived, lived shall he say?--existed, with this land of plenty just around the corner. Well, he mused as he swung off toward the abbatoir, tradition may have been the salvation of England, but not so with Radcliffe...