Word: carrions
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...picture follows a plot line more primitive than its subject. In a cavern, in a canyon dwells the Rock tribe, whose idea of a big time is letting a vulture carry on with grandpaw's carrion. Lowbrow-beaten by his father, and pushed off a cliff by a dribbling sibling, young Tumak (John Richardson) rebels and goes into the caveman business for himself. Eventually, he stumbles across the Shell people, a group in a more advanced state of civilization, as evidenced by their stone-headed spears and the pneumatic uplift of Raquel Welch's deerskin halter...
...likens the relation between the Russians and their rulers to that between Peter the Great and one of his mistresses. Having cut off the poor wench's head, the czar snatched it up again by the hair and then, according to eyewitnesses, kissed the bloody carrion passionately on the lips. Unlike Evtushenko, however, Voznesensky is not primarily a political poet. He is concerned with politics because he is concerned with the suffering it causes, but he clearly comprehends that not all suffering is politically produced. In one of his most dreadful and beautiful poems he describes...
...cast may be actors or still lifes. That fine old comic stager Melville Cooper is immured on the bench and reduced to clearing his throat. Still, he is spared dialogue like "Now, perhaps, you'll listen to reason," "Dammit, the police aren't fools," or "Where the carrion is, there will vultures be gathered...
...putrefying flesh of a dead animal is as unpleasant to scientists as to anyone else. As a result, relatively little research has been done on the decay processes that can rapidly reduce a dead body to bones and a few hanks of hair. The dearth of carrion data bothered Clemson University Entomologist Jerry Payne so much that his scientific curiosity eventually overcame his distaste. In some revealing experiments with decaying animal carcasses, he reports in Ecology, he clearly demonstrated that insects take the major role in the decomposition of carrion. He also suggests that study of the insects themselves will...
...earth, an icy, sharp dust; not thawing and freezing, but static like a year without seasons. The changing mist, like the smoke of war, would hang over it swallow up now a hanger, now the radar hut, now the machines; release them place by place, drained of color, black carrion on a white desert...