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...fire in an attempt to cook away the gamey taste. But the meat was stringy and tough and as they gnawed on the primates' tiny arms and legs, some of the soldiers felt like they were eating their young. Others couldn't keep anything down. Now, drifting in the netherworld between sleep and consciousness, Suárez twisted and turned in his hammock until he finally popped awake in the early- morning light. His stomach was about to detonate. (See TIME's Colombia covers...
...Every baroque period has a flowering genius who rises up as the most glorious expression of its style of life ... He is the first boy to become a millionaire within America's teenage netherworld." - Tom Wolfe, in his piece on Spector, "The First Tycoon of Teen" (The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby...
...source of employment," says a 30-year-old woman who grew up near La Reforma and now studies law in Guatemala City. "They're the principal investors." The woman has family in Huite and asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal. (See pictures of the narco netherworld...
...extended a trembling hand, admired the tips of her nails as they glided forward, like translucent rosebuds opening to the sun. The raised hills of paint pierced the sensitive throbbing mounds of her fingertips. She traced the musculature of his arm, the delicately shadowed length of him.From a netherworld, the curator said: “Touching is not permitted.”The spell was pierced. Felicity whirled about, a snarl distorting her pretty face. “I shall touch! Oh, my little mustard seed!” she cried.The floodgates opened.A summer monsoon wracked her body.She collapsed into...
...Yankees won often, but won with grace. Their players, with few exceptions, respected the tradition reflected in their pinstripes, and eschewed the showboating, sleaze, and unshaven slovenliness common among other teams. Yankee management never passed over into that netherworld of statistics and other alchemical arcana; rather, they continued to rely on what had always worked: character and heart. The Stadium, their home in the Bronx, stood firm for what was best about the sport, as other, lesser teams floated aimlessly in a sea of unchecked change...