Word: decay
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...Further Decay. It was Dolce Vita's Fellini who exploited most fully the characteristics that had long since made Mastroianni (Mass-tro-yahn-ee) one of the most popular actors in Italy. His handsome face, young in its outlines but creased with premature wrinkles, has a frightened, characteristically 20th century look-as of a mantis who has lost faith in the efficacy of prayer. He suggests the all-round fellow of the 1960s who is the antithesis of Renaissance man-painfully aware of nearly everything, truly able at nothing. His spine seems to be a stack of plastic napkin...
However, Taylor's exclusion of any first-rate author but Cooper perhaps overdoes a good thing. Precisely because the Southern Cavalier so closely resembled the Romantic hero--doomed, indecisive, in love with decay--it is a shame that Taylor does no more than mention Poe (in a casual reference to Roderick Usher) and the lesser-known Southern Gothics...
...been able to carry home with them. People living in Oriente province, which surrounds the base, have been especially hard hit by the breakdown of Cuba's distribution system. Beef and chickens, frozen when they leave Havana 600 miles away, arrive in Oriente in an advanced state of decay; so do dairy products. Said one Cuban on the base: "Our meat sometimes has worms, and when it doesn't it smells to the heavens. I do not know how long we can live like this." Added another: "Now they tell us, 'You won't stick...
...rulers of Western New Guinea have discouraged headhunting, so the elaborate buildup generally ends at this point. The ancestor poles are taken out into the sago forest and left to rot. Perhaps the souls of dead ancestors go away with them and cease to annoy the living; perhaps their decay helps the procreation of the sago trees. The Asmat are well aware that all this is an anticlimax, but when the Dutch leave New Guinea, as they soon must, the ceremonial may culminate as of old in a real head-hunting raid on a neighboring tribe. If it is successful...
preside over all organic changes-growth and reproduction, death and decay. Modern industry uses more of them every year, and there seem to be few limits to what they...