Word: carcassing
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...best piece in the show, both horribly vivid and weirdly distanced, is the room-size Carousel, 1988. Four motor-driven arms swing on a pivot. From each hangs what appears to be the flayed carcass of a deer or a wolf. (They are, in fact, hard plastic-foam molds.) These casually suspended mock bodies are covered in graphite paint, and they drag on the floor, producing an unremittingly irksome scraping noise and leaving a silvery circular trail behind them, round and round. You don't feel empathy with the dead animals--the molds are too blank to evoke much more...
...Once Were Warriors" is the carrion call to the carcass of Maori culture; and its vision means to shake you to the core...
BOSTON--One hundred yards from the Medical School, the University is transforming the 10-story carcass of the old Boston English High School into a center of research called the Harvard Institutes of Medicine...
...pages; $21) by referring loftily to the title character as "the eponymous hippopotamus." Shun this pedant, who should consider another line of work. Read the novel, however. Its virtues are cynicism and ill will, directed energetically at all that is trendy and modern, and embodied in the blubbery, whiskified carcass of an out-of-date poet named Ted Wallace...
...paradoxical result is dispiriting: a spiteful-seeming attempt to prove another's magnanimity. Seymour-Smith spends so much time snapping at his predecessors that the effect, finally, is like a scene from one of those unblinking nature documentaries where jackals, hyenas and buzzards all jostle over the same bloodied carcass...