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What holds of Joel Martin holds equally of Thomas Segall, the Duke of Plaza-Toro. His hen-pecked pomposity, always delightful, is the converse of his wife's (Judith Press) graceful rhinocerosity...
Blurred Nature. Gossipy as a hen, he makes cutting remarks about people who pass the table and then hails them aloud, saying, "You absolutely sweet and adorable man," or "Hello, you sweet son of a bitch." He mimics people with devastating and quite humorous precision. More often, however, he carps; and Harvey is really a phi beta carper...
Short, Climate-Controlled Life. U.S. farmers produce a 31-lb. chicken in nine weeks with 8 Ibs. of feed-which is one-third less time and half as much feed as it took a few years ago. Mother hens set in climate-controlled rows while separate conveyor belts carry away their droppings and their eggs (average per hen: 200 fertilized eggs yearly). Automatic incubators coddle more than 50,000 eggs at a time, radioactive isotopes trace what goes on inside chickens to find better nutrients, and each chick is vigorously hormonized, vitaminized (A, B, D, E, K) and de-beaked...
Changeless Isolation. In the half-century since Schweitzer came to Lambaréné with his wife Hélène and performed his first operation in a converted hen house, the mission has expanded but otherwise changed little. At the river landing there are only pirogues, crude dugout canoes, the one type of river ambulance Schweitzer will use. ("Brancardier! Brancardier!" [stretcher bearer] the oarsmen cry when they arrive with an emergency.) The hospital compound is without telephone, running water or refrigeration, has electricity only in the main building, which houses the tiny, antiquated operating theater. Sterilization is carried...
Yeah! Since gospel music is the root of rhythm-and-blues and "soul jazz," the discovery turned out to be embarrassingly obvious-like eating the hen after stealing all the eggs...