Word: devoured
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...title, Widowers' Houses, is a vicious twist on Mark 12:38: "Beware of the scribes...which devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers...
Those being a fairly rigorous education inclassical literature, a life-long openness toelectronic media and its influences, liketelevision, rock n' roll, television commercials,movies, newspapers, magazines. I am omnivorousabout all of these things. I can't devour enoughnewspapers and magazines in a day, and I've alwaysbeen this way. It's not something I'm doingbecause it's a professional necessity. So I thinkthe reason that I'm becoming as popular as I amamong this generation is because I am working in astyle that allows these sorts of forces to comeinto play as much...
Durang aims to devour them all, and a sumptuous feast it should be. However, his character assassinations go too often for the obvious, never really piercing the level of sophomoric, imitative humor one might find in an amateur parody...
...Even Father Guido Sarducci has concocted his own recipe for celebrity spaghetti sauce! Now, for tykes, Campbell's is about to introduce Where's Waldo? SpaghettiOs. Kids can find and devour the tiny hero and his tiny dog, Woof. Next: Bambi crackers...
...believes the evolutionary roots of egg and sperm cells can be traced back to a group of organisms known as protists that first appeared some 1.5 billion years ago. (Modern examples include protozoa, giant kelp and malaria parasites.) During periods of starvation, Margulis conjectures, one protist was driven to devour another. Sometimes this cannibalistic meal was incompletely digested, and the nuclei of prey and predator fused. By joining forces, the fused cells were better able to survive adversity, and because they survived, their penchant for union was passed on to their distant descendants...