Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little fells of ten or so, shot in the face. There are bullet or fragment holes in the back and buttocks, one of which had exited through his abdomen, the others lodged somewhere. He, like most of the others, came in lying in a pool of blood. Feces and ground up bits of bone were flowing out of the buttocks wound. Vomit ran from his mouth and mixed with the blood pouring from his mouth and mixed with the blood pouring from the face wound. We worked with him for a long time but his chances were slim...
...with scatological jokes and gestures. A grinning idiot is carried onstage and led to a chopping block. A headsman mimes a blow with his weapon -then chops the victim's hand off to a chorus of cackles, while freshets of blood stain the scene. It is a savage fragment of the cinema of cruelty, a death-in-life image, like T.S. Eliot's perception of "the skull beneath the skin...
...laugh at any mortal thing,/ Tis that I may not weep," wrote Byron. That philosophical fragment accounts for the duality of all black farce; looking between the cracks, one catches glimpses of hell...
...original Lost City meteorite probably weighed several hundred pounds, and it created a bright "fireball" trail that was seen by thousands of prairie dwellers before it exploded. A farmer named Phillip Halpain discovered a 9-ounce fragment of the meteor while he was searching for a lost calf. Earlier, a member of the Smithsonian's search party discovered a 21 pound chunk lying on a dirt road...
Hundreds of meteors' orbits have been calculated from these photographs, and search parties have looked for meteorite fragments twice before. But this is the first time the Network's scientists have been able to recover a fragment and also calculate its orbit...