Word: devourers
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...sound entertaining-a sort of avant-garde James Bond adventure. It is nothing of the kind. The Ticket That Exploded, revised since it was first published in France five years ago, is a nightmare of pornography, disjointed prose,* spaceships powered by copulation, frog people, hangings, and "Sex Skins," which devour people in what apparently is the ultimate ecstasy of death...
...husband is comforted neither by apples, affluence, martinis, the Democrats, nor a dead God. The partners turn inward-defeated by teenyboppers, Red China, polluted air, Kinsey's statistics, retreating hairlines, wash day, the office bastard, a pot-smoking son, Leda's swan, the snows of yesteryear. They devour each other and emerge as One, shrieking. It is better to have loved and flipped than never to have loved...
...Their fingers, noses and ears were chopped off, their tongues cut out." Japan's Kyodo news service reported that 54 persons were killed, 900 wounded and 6,000 arrested and that the city's rail and telephone services were cut. The Great Revolution had clearly begun to devour itself...
William Jennings Bryan once called him "Mexico's Sir Galahad." Yet Hollywood portrayed him as a cruel, simple-minded bandit who poured honey on his prisoners for the delight of watching the ants devour them. His widow denied stories of his atrocities, said in his defense that "If he didn't like you, he'd just pull out his gun and shoot...
...tossed from the boat was devoured by a school of piranhas in 15 minutes. When the local people wish to drive cattle across these rivers, they sacrifice the oldest cow, driving it into the river first as bait. While the attention of the piranhas is focused on consuming that animal, the rest of the cattle cross in relative safety a few feet upstream. It is not difficult to see how, given the proper opportunity, a school of piranhas could devour a human being...