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...tonics and poultices made from rare animal parts, including everything from bear bile to deer antlers. Among enthusiasts for this esoteric branch of traditional medicine, few animals are more treasured for their nutritive qualities than the tiger. Tiger bone wine - a rice alcohol brewed in a vat with the carcass of one of the cats - is prized as a tonic for fatigue and sexual potency, for example. In an effort to clamp down on the lucrative poaching industry that sprung up around the big cats, sales of tiger parts were banned...
...long, wiry poles carefully manipulated by graceful actors below. Whether colorful and exuberantly used—as in dazzling high-production numbers like “Hakuna Matata”—or charcoal gray and hauntingly employed—as buzzards circling a carcass in Scar’s elephant graveyard—the airy bird-puppets are some of the most elegant technical elements in the show...
...emboldened as any suicide bomber. In the Web note of more than 3,000 words, he wrote, "I ... know that by not adding my body to the count, I insure nothing will change. I choose to not keep looking over my shoulder at big brother while he strips my carcass, I choose not to ignore what is going on all around me, I choose not to pretend that business as usual won't continue; I have just had enough." He signed off, "Joe Stack...
...That inequality struck me as I surveyed the wreckage of Pariaman, where nearly every building had been twisted into a carcass of impossible angles. Unlike New Orleans or other Western locales ravaged by nature, Pariaman will quickly fade from the vocabulary of global disaster. Yet the tales there are no less tragic...
...also in a lot of junk, like this week's Surrogates, an ambitious but sub-ordinary SF epic in which, as so often, Willis is better than his material. He keeps you watching, inspecting the carcass, and not just because there's not much else to look at. With his coiled poise and the compact gestures of someone who doesn't mind being scrutinized by the camera, Willis exudes worldly wariness and cosmic weariness, as if he'd achieved a state of Zen machismo. He offered a giant dose of this in the last and best Die Hard movie...