Word: livers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that flourishes during the warmest months. Oysters, clams and mussels that eat the organism are poisonous to humans, which is why in some areas such seafood is not harvested in summer. By contrast, fugu poison, which has almost the same effect, is always present in the sex organs and liver of Japanese puffer fish. Hence in Japan chefs who prepare puffers are required to learn how to make the fish edible...
...Wahnfried, 1914-1975, which premiered in Paris recently. Her basic message: anybody who thinks that Hitler was cruel, malevolent and even megalomaniacal is mistaken about his "good and human" nature. He was the sort of man, she recalls, who could be tempted into cheating on his vegetarian diet with liver dumplings. As Winni tells it, der Führer had "immensely appealing" eyes, played the piano "very nicely," and was "really touching with the children...
...Higginson of the World Health Organization suggested that as many as 80% of all cancers were caused by agents in the environment. But no one is scoffing any more. The National Cancer Institute has published charts showing those areas of the country with the highest death rates from lung, liver and bladder cancer (see map); these areas also happen to have chemical plants-and chemical pollution. The obvious conclusion: Americans-and others elsewhere round the world-are increasingly filling their environment with chemicals that are not only harmful but may even be lethal...
...determine the correlation, Commoner and his Washington University colleagues tested 92 chemical compounds on strains of the common bacteria Salmonella typhimurium, developed by Ames. Each compound was made up in three different concentrations and mixed with preparations made from seven different rat tissues (liver, kidney, brain, stomach, lung, spleen and blood); each of the mixtures was then added to culture dishes containing the Salmonella...
Psychic Energy. There are also the author's ritual mentions of the liver as if it were a window on the soul, psychosomatic illness, and plenty of vigorous metaphors on the uses of terror, dread and psychic energy. He even parodies Rojack of An American Dream by playing around on the terrace ledge of his hotel room, high above the streets of Kinshasa. As always, Mailer is keenly aware of his own celebrity when mixing with other celebrities. As always, no one can cut the competition as well as he does. Zaire's President Mobutu reminds Mailer...