Word: excrementalism
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...Paris have come away unmoved by the splendor of the city's architecture, the depth of its history, the vibrant color of its inner life. Fewer still are those who have explored the French capital without also stumbling across one of its less charming secrets: the ubiquitous dog excrement that turns many Parisian sidewalks into veritable minefields of shoe-defiling muck. But following the example of famous creators before him who drew inspiration from the picturesque details of Parisian life, a civic-minded artist has embraced the City of Light's blight by using selected piles of poop to denounce...
First he's robbed of his writing instruments (the quills that give this movie its title). Undaunted, he uses his blood for ink, his clothing as paper. Stripped, he manages to write a story in his excrement on his cell walls. Finally, his tormentors rip out his tongue. Quills is not, obviously, your standard biopic...
...sensationalist press was in lurid bloom. The Know-Nothing party flourished on nativist paranoias and disgust with immigrants. In a prose tract called "The Eighteenth Presidency!", Whitman referred to politicians as "pimps," "excrement," and "serpentine men." Slavery had the sanction...
MIGHTY MITES Ever wonder who's really in bed with you? Government researchers did. After collecting dust samples from beds in 800 homes, they declared U.S. bedding to be rife with dust mites--and their excrement. Droppings are estimated to exceed 2 mg per gram of dust, a level known to trigger allergies, in 44 million homes. In half of these, they're fivefold higher, a significant danger for asthma sufferers. What to do? Keep room humidity low (mites love moisture), wash linens in hot water and zip up duvets and pillows in impermeable, allergen-proof covers. Alas, these measures...
...Jack...members of the Harvard Lampoon have declared their latest issue the funniest issue ever. "Once we figured out how to use exclamation points to our comic advantage, things really got rolling. Example: I just took a shit. IN MY PANTS, that is!!!" explained an anonymous Lampoon writer. "Human excrement also goes over real big around here." Plans to refocus the Lampoon towards a crossword-only format are already underway...Andrea Rabinowitz '01 has found a real community in the pfoho-open mailing list. "I love these people like a family," she gushed, "I've even arranged to meet some...