Word: fowle
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...coup, demonstrating convincingly how instinctive ("hardwired") behavior can be shuttled from one species to another. The feat, moreover, was accomplished not by crossbreeding or genetic engineering but through the artful replacement of selected brain cells in a chicken embryo with those from the embryo of a Japanese quail, a fowl of a completely different sort...
...Japanese are flocking to buy Tamagotchi, a digital gadget that doubles as a pet chick. Available soon in the U.S., Tamagotchi (Japanese for cute little egg) hatches onscreen. Owners feed, amuse and clean up after their feathered friend by pressing buttons. If the bird begins to fade away, suspect fowl play. Owner neglect results in Tami's virtual death. Love is cruel...
...with the local vicar Dimmesdale. He also interjects a premonitory canary which appears to have fallen in a pot of scarlet (Geddit?) paint. The scarlet admonition then materializes like a cartoon birdie every time Hester (Demi Moore) glances at a man. In a High Mass of heavy-handedness, this fowl of doom engages in virtual sex with the slave girl Mituba (Lisa Jolliff-Andoh) in a bathtub while Hester and Dimmesdale (Gary Oldman) go at it in the seed bins...
...these feathered fowl are not running loose on their own. They are being exposed to student life at Harvard by newly inducted members of the Phoenix final club, in a rite of initiation...
...seem to be suffering from a common disorder: the substitution of a large fowl for your parents. It's not so much that it's a turkey--it could be a large duck or swan--but the point is, it likes to moralize. And a moralizing turkey is the worst kind. Perhaps these are your own worst fears, fears that you can only face in this particular form--at least they're edible. It's obvious that the family-induced trauma of the Thanksgiving season has gotten to you. Drink lots of beer, engage in anti-family activities and these...