Word: carcassing
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...heart or soul. They deliver their special blend of mayhem with an unmatched fury and cynical edge but at times it's hard not to get dragged down in all the gloominess. Closing with their unofficial theme song, "You F**ked Yourself," Quasi leave the stage dragging the broken carcass of pop music behind them...
...last stragglers of a vanishing species--that within 35 years a 247-lb. Atlantic broadbill swordfish would be as rare as a tyrannosaur--I would have set it free, administered CPR or, if all attempts at resuscitation had failed, I would at least have had the carcass of the mighty fish gilded and sent to the Smithsonian...
...which vanished some 10,000 years ago at the end of the last ice age, had been found before, but rarely in such good shape. To preserve their find, Buigues and his team dug a trench completely around it, freeing a 26-ton block of ice that contained the carcass. Last Sunday a helicopter lifted the block and flew it to a nearby cave, where the beast will be slowly thawed with a hair dryer...
...while the female usually can produce only a dozen or so offspring in her lifetime no matter how much she messes around, so why should she try? Furthermore, the female consort of man-the-hunter didn't dare cheat on him lest he stomp off and take the zebra carcass with him. So Hillary fumes, Monica pines, and Bill, propelled mindlessly by his evolutionary male legacy, looks for new places to dispense his seed...
...little defensive these days. They donate venison to homeless shelters. They shun confrontation with animal rightists--and lobby for laws to prevent activists from harassing them in the woods as they hunt. When hunters bring a buck home from the woods, they are less inclined to tie the carcass on the fender or luggage rack; they hide it under a tarp. The image of idiot hunters fueled by beer and bourbon and blazing away at anything that moves in the forest--sometimes firing from the cabs of pickups--has made many hunters sheepish. They have developed a sense of image...