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Life and death coexist with a unique ecological compactness. Nothing is wasted. First the lion dines, and then the hyena, and then the vulture, then the lesser specialists, insects and the like, until the carcass is picked utterly clean, and what is left, bones and horns, subside into the grass. It has been an African custom to take the dead out into the open and leave them unceremoniously for the hyenas...
...legendary cutup. Last winter, when the newlyweds made the film, they also made headlines on every tabloid front page. There would seem to be a bit of "want see" here. And yet MGM, the distributor of Shanghai Surprise, has drop-kicked it into the marketplace like a turkey carcass...
...fisherman who served as the model for the grizzled Quint in Jaws helped a young charter-boat captain land the largest great white shark ever taken on a sporting rod and reel. Frank Mundus, 60, and Donnie Braddick, 30, had spotted a group of great whites feeding on the carcass of a whale about 25 miles south of Montauk, N.Y., and mobilized for battle. But the monster did not immediately abandon the whale in favor of the crew's whiting , and butterfish bait. "We were offering him a lollipop when he had the whole candy store," says Mundus. He turned...
...cold. But officials had become increasingly worried about the giant birds, which have been the object of an intensive six- year, $6 million preservation program. Since the fall of 1984, six of the known wild condors have been lost. One died from eating a lead slug in a carcass that was left behind by hunters. The others, which may also have succumbed to lead poisoning, have simply disappeared. The last wild breeding female has been trapped, briefly detained and found to have high levels of lead in its blood...
...Raymond Burr, as the only American who survived Godzilla's last whirlwind tour of Tokyo, is meant to show us that Godzilla has entered the modern world. But all Burr does is offer the American military tidbits of information every few minutes, assault us full-force with his huge carcass, and do absolutely nothing in terms of real action. His presence is really nothing but a huge farce to attract crowds...