Word: carcass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four men have arranged a weekend of undisturbed eating at a fenced-in country house once owned by the classical poet Boileau-Despreaux. Their arrival is followed by the arrival of the meat truck bearing wild boar, lamb, beef. Each carcass is ceremoniously described: "Three dozen young Ardennes roosters...two superb, soft-eyed deer, the flesh redolent...ten dozen semi-wild game hens...
...husband Jim, a computer-data trainee, have made a science of obtaining meat. Diane scouts out farmers willing to sell an animal cheap. After the farmer takes care of the slaughtering, her husband butchers the carcass. Next month the Hacketts plan to visit Mississippi, where a relative will sell them two pigs for $10 each...
...unsheathed of any protective tissue, to the vibrations of sex and power must have found it difficult to have stayed away for so long. The last time he left quietly, his reputation on the decrescendo, his powers drained after grappling with his third novel, he dragged his speeded out carcass back to Brooklyn, the first act of his life as a serious artist a closed curtain...
...animal in a relatively short time, but his problem lately has been that feed costs have risen sharply. The packer who slaughters the calf adds a markup, but his margins have been pared by increasing labor and transportation costs. The retailer, who often dresses a 600-pound carcass into a variety of table meats, adds still another markup, but his own profits have been crimped by rising costs of everything from labor to fuel...
...seek the best buys," Hurlbut said, "but the meat market is a very volatile one. If there is a cutback, it will be by switching to other parts of the carcass or to other types of meat as prices indicate." Hurlbut added, however, that he has no plans to change the amount of meat on the menu...