Word: excrementalism
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...effective. Krasnoye is a model of petty bureaucracy populated by the pompous, the incompetent and the foolish. A self-proclaimed scientific genius and follower of Lysenko, named Gladishev, for example, devotes himself to creating a hybrid plant that will grow potatoes underground and tomatoes above. He also believes in excrement as a wonder vitamin that could benefit mankind if only people would overcome their squeamishness. There are send-ups of education, collective farms, newspapers, law enforcement and party organizations. Voinovich's definition of an official meeting: "An arrangement whereby a large number of people gather together, some...
Lane says that among his group's efforts now is an initiative to attract more fast food restaurants to the already-glutted Square ("What the hell!!") and to cover Central's Shawmut Bank branch--which he says Rothman's money controls--with human excrement...
Lusty Creatures. In its original incarnation, Sweet Movie included a scene in which some performers devour excrement. This precedent-shattering interlude has been removed. Still remaining is a sequence in which a character called Captain Anna Planeta (Anna Prucnal) strips in front of some eight-year-old boys and starts to unzip the fly of one wondering youngster. Presumably this will bring the boys' sexuality to abrupt flower and turn them into lusty, life-embracing creatures...
Marton says he didn't think about the meaning of the war until he was in the hospital--he almost lost a leg when he stepped on a Pungi stick, a piece of bamboo reed sharpened on both ends and immersed in excrement as poison. After endless "nights when you'd hear guys sobbing in their beds--and I did it too--who were letting themselves feel the things they were repressing in combat," he began to think Vietnam was a mistake...
...York City health department, reported that a nursing home had failed to notify officials of a serious diarrhea epidemic. A surprise inspection of the home's kitchen revealed that patients were being given milk that should have been used at least a week earlier. This same inspection found excrement on the floors in patients' rooms and other equally unsanitary conditions...