Word: excrementalism
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...creator of the political philosophies of passive resistance and constructive nonviolence, he spent much of his life far from the political arena, refining his more eccentric theories of vegetarianism, bowel movements and the beneficial properties of human excrement...
...jolts eventually left her unconscious. When Chinese prison guards tired of kicking Tibetan monk Palden Gyatso, they shoved a black clublike shock baton down his throat and charged it up. The current that raced through his body left him crumpled on the floor "in a pool of blood and excrement and in extreme pain," he recalls. In Lebanon interrogators employ the "Flying Carpet": a procedure during which an electric rod is shoved under the genitals of a prisoner strapped to a chair. A soldier takes a photo of the rod being applied "to show it to us before we meet...
...mood is one of growing, if discreet, discontent. Baghdad residents have noticed fewer portraits of Saddam around town. In one area, Iraqis claimed that officials took down his pictures after citizens smeared them with excrement. Iraqis have clearly had enough of the hardships caused by economic sanctions, and Saddam's putting all the blame on the U.S. is wearing thin. Iraqis have seen their livelihood collapse and their savings eroded by inflation. "We've sold our refrigerator, our sitting-room chairs, our beds," said a young man in a juice shop. "Now my family is sleeping on the floor." Nowhere...
VIRULENT VIRUS A deadly illness caused by the hantavirus has spread from person to person in Argentina. Until now, scientists thought it was transmitted only by contact with rodent excrement...
...Steinem and other critics, notably Hanna Rosin in the New Republic, point out that the sex in Hustler is, in fact, often portrayed as bad and ugly and dirty, with women depicted in rape fantasies, smeared with excrement, likened literally to pieces of meat. Of course, a lot of Hustler's grosser features, like the infamous woman-in-a-meat-grinder cover (glimpsed briefly in the film), are supposed to be, in perhaps the loosest sense of the word yet devised, satiric. But as is the case with a lot of humor that allegedly pokes fun at demeaning racial stereotypes...