Word: carcassing
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...revamping its interior to promote a new theme. Past themes have included "surburbia," "obelisks," and "passion," all of which entailed major structural changes, bizarre invitations, and display cases complete with live models acting out an aspect of the theme. On Halloween night a masked man attacked a hanging animal carcass with a chainsaw...
...month to brick burglars, St. Louis perhaps 50 a year. "We don't use terms like brick stealing," says Philip Mumford, owner of Chicago-based Colonial Brick Co. Inc., which pays about $80 for 1,000 used bricks. "If a rabbit dies and a buzzard eats the carcass, that's scavenging. In the city, when a building dies, there's a process of claiming that carcass...
...heart had failed, but in the autopsy no ruptures or lesions could be found. "We're really at a bit of a loss now," said Veterinarian Helen Acland. The brain tissue will not be fully examined for ten days; complete toxicity tests might take a month. The dark carcass of the son of Seattle Slew was sent to Claiborne Farm in Paris, Ky., for more than the traditional burying of the head, heart and hoofs. As Claiborne's only Derby winner, he rated burial in an oaken casket with a silver lid lined in the farm...
...Indian Reservation, volunteers brought firewood to one isolated compound just in time: the elderly Indian women had begun to burn their clothing for heat. Jack Fourier, a local rancher, donated a frozen brahma bull to hungry Sioux 50 miles away, and used his chain saw to carve up the carcass. "In weather like this," said Fourier, "people got to pitch in for each other." In northern Indiana, people did just that. Paramedic Robert Hickman flagged down a freight train and highballed it 3½ miles to pick up Kelly Braggs, 20, stranded in her rural home and suffering from...
...schooling in the dramatic arts, Ralph had literally to buy his way into an amateur repertory company. His audition speech drew this appraisal from the company's manager: "It's frightful, Richardson. You could never, never be any good as Falstaff." The next time Richardson slipped into the grand carcass of that role, in 1945, he was proclaimed the greatest Falstaff in living memory...