Word: excremention
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...separate offense. There is urgent reason for speedy enactment. In the 15 months it took to draft the House bill, New York Representative John M. Murphy has reminded his colleagues that the nation's tidal lands have soaked up 62 million additional tons of industrial wastes and human excrement and materials dredged up from rivers and harbors...
...inspiring," said Charles S. Wood, chief of Massachusetts' bureau of insect control, when he heard millions of bugs chomping through the Cape Cod woods. "It sounds like a gentle rain in summer." Besides the chewing, naturalists say, the noise is partly the ceaseless drizzle of moth excrement and partly the rustle of falling, half-eaten leaves...
There is nothing subtle about the book. Every scene is played for maximum impact, culminating in Daniel's imagined re-creation of the execution: "My father snapped back and forth, cracking like a whip. A hideous smell compounded of burning flesh, excrement and urine filled the death chamber." Occasionally Doctorow overdoes his aggressiveness. There are too many stray references to "volts" and "currents," too many gory inserts about earlier methods of execution. Both detract from the starkness of the tragedy. But these are quibbles. Doctorow has produced a relatively rare commodity: a serious novel on a distasteful subject that...
Those who manage to escape could be models for Goya's Disasters of War. The lucky ones get into already overfilled tent camps that reek of caustic soda disinfectant and human excrement, and are ankle deep in filthy water from the first monsoons. Most huddle under trees or bushes trying to avoid the heavy rains. Some find cramped quarters on the verandas of now closed schoolhouses. Others near Calcutta have found large open drainpipes to live in. Around them is always the stench of garbage, polluted water, sickness and death...
...artist and teacher, I view the Andy Warhol machine with no other emotion than disgust. Although I admire Mr. Warhol's attempt to portray his environment in the indiscriminate manner of a ditto machine, I would suggest that he spend a little less time fondly fingering our cultural excrement. The concern should be with changing...