Word: hatched
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...famous, an open-jawed shark in a tank of formaldehyde titled The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, offered a giant beast of prey as a belligerent correlative for a universally suppressed anxiety. A Thousand Years is a large glass box in which real maggots hatch into flies that appear to feed on blood (actually red sugar water) from a severed cow's head, then are killed by an electric bug zapper - the tragic cycle of life and death played as low farce by the lowest orders. And there's something both hilarious and chilling about...
...sometimes approached debate the way he approached boxing as a midshipman, throwing wild haymakers until someone went down. He has offended the clubby Senate with his sailor's mouth, cursing at Pete Domenici of New Mexico over pork, John Cornyn of Texas over immigration and even the Mormon Orrin Hatch of Utah over judges. During McCain's campaign to normalize relations with Vietnam, he nearly came to blows with Charles Grassley of Iowa. Smith served on a tanker in the Gulf of Tonkin, but he says that when he was the Senate's only Vietnam vet to oppose normalizing relations...
...Auburn-Gresham neighborhood one of America's most violent. Murders were so rampant that Irish immigrant plumbers refused to work in the neighborhood. Still, residents had no choice but to go about their daily routines. "We'd become so desensitized," recalls the church's pastor, Rev. Marshall E. Hatch...
...collecting trash. The recent Friday Movie Night and Variety Show drew some 200 kids. In the fall, the church sponsors ACT- and SAT-prep courses, and hires college students as role models. "You go one block, and you're smack dab in the middle of the negative pathologies," Hatch says. "Outside of here, academic excellence is frowned upon. They'll tell you, 'you're trying to be white.' But here," he adds, "we're creating a counter-cultural oasis to the negativity...
...will freeze this year's $2.8 billion SDI budget. The members of the House Armed Services Committee, he says, rank SDI as a low priority. In the Senate, a subcommittee working on the SDI funding proposal cut $800 million from the Administration request last Friday, with conservative Republican Orrin Hatch joining those seeking more substantial slashes...