Word: feral
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Htut cannot afford to be so idealistic, not publicly. One night in Taunggyi, he was sitting with band mates in a hotel bar, plates of grilled rabbit and feral cat in front of them. On several occasions, he started to bemoan his working conditions, then abruptly changed the subject. Later, he admitted he's thought about leaving the country, about moving to Australia perhaps and maybe opening a studio there. But he isn't going anywhere. His mother is here, his friends, fans and band mates. And he knows he couldn't equal the success he's had in Burma...
...Howe threw on Lancaster makes him look by turns reptilian and leprous), allows you to read the small print on the cover of a scandal magazine called Sensation (the lead story: "Sex in the City"). But the picture looks good in any size. Even the videocassette format provides a feral pleasure, as Howe's camera prowls the New York nighttown like an accomplice. Or a conscience. Or like Sidney, always on the make and on the move, ratlike, in the dark...
...Then the real action begins. The tattoo awakens demons, and Niwet, who spent time in jail for manslaughter, is on all fours on the gravel outside the temple, blood and ink oozing from his back. He bares his teeth, growls, rises with a feral roar and hurtles himself toward a row of monks chanting on a makeshift altar. But between him and the praying monks are 41 soldiers and volunteers recruited to subdue the devotees. They wrestle Niwet to the ground and one rubs his earlobe. That drives the demons away...
Eager to allay fears of Hitchcock-style bird terror, FM spoke with Alison G. Price, a Cambridge Animal Control Officer and 12-year-veteran of controlling the feral Cambridge streets...
...think of Ian Brady as an author. Half of the duo responsible for the notorious Moors Murders, a series of child slayings in 1960s Britain, Brady made his name as a killer. And the dust jacket of his book, The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and its Analysis (Feral House; 305 pages) publicizes him as a murderer, not a writer...