Word: carrion
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...student who went to Harvard to do graduate work and wrote to a chum that he should go crazy if he didn't find pretty soon-some nice girl be could kiss." This explains much. Many have wondered just why the usual denizen of Widener appeared more like a carrion crow minus the carrion than a human being in search of truth. The other reason than that of the cafeteria food of graduate life evidently exists. He has no delightul co-ed to help him to the stars...
...back to his place, loosens his bow tie and twists it in his hands as he contemplates his most beautiful murder. Sure, it means his pal will be executed. But ?What?s his life to mine? What?s any life to mine?? Tone is the vulture soaring over the carrion of Curtis? loser-hero, but Raines is the film?s rock - pretty, plucky, blithely reckless. She plays a nice girl who?s a jeopardy freak...
Amidst all the confusion, the tabloids swept in for the kill. Pictures of Timberlake dancing and lunching with another girl were splashed across their front pages. Somewhere in the carrion of what was once true love, diggers have unearthed the most plausible reason for a Spears-Timberlake separation: busy schedules make it too difficult to be with each other...
...Their names teem with a sort of secret Shakespearean life. I browse through field guides to wildflowers and weeds, and when I read them, I feel as if I have rediscovered a rich, hidden vein of the English language-a parallel universe populated by such vivid protagonists as Carrion Flower and Wild Bleeding Heart, as Vipers Bugloss and Crazyweed, as Hog Peanut, Corn Cockle, Tansy leaf Aster, Showy Orchis, Death Camas, and that damned elusive Scarlet Pimpernel...
...attic above me, an animal has died. A carrion smell seeps through the ceiling. A squirrel, maybe. A raccoon? For a week, I heard something scuttling up there - as if to answer the clicking of my computer keyboard. I was amused to think the animals were weighing in with a contrary point of view. I assumed that a creature that had found its way into the attic would find its way out. Then the scuttling stopped, and in a day or two, the dead smell began. I must go up through the trap door in the ceiling in the hall...