Word: offalness
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...chewing through the sense of the lines as if for the first time. One notices with surprise that Hamlet's vocabulary is flecked with coarse, rustic phrases like manure on his boots; he talks of "fardels" and "the compost on the weeds" and "the slave's offal" to offset his university scholar's jargon...
...Tupi Indian word meaning vulture offal, which for years has been the name of a nearby stretch of rapids on the Paran...
...mayor of Omaha donned hip boots and waded manfully out into the icy currents of the Missouri River. His purpose: to get a firsthand look at the hundreds of tons of offal that Omaha's $700 million-a-year packinghouse industry dumps into the river each day. Besides making his stomach-turning inspection tour, the mayor recently called a special $6.2 million bond election for May 10 to finance, among other projects, a sorely needed sewage-treatment system to help clean up the polluted river...
...Richard Chopping. 291 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $4.95. On the jacket of this book squats a huge hairy fly-no doubt attracted by the offal inside. There is Mrs. Macklin, a black widow in sweaty corsets, who works days as caretaker of a dreary British office and prowls the night looking for someone to take care of her; Mr. Gender, an amorous Prufrock with boils; Miss Jeacock, a withered office virgin who lures a young clerk to the ladies' room and ecstatically dies of a surfeit. The clerk flees the jakes in horror but is blackmailed by Mrs. Macklin...
...fill in the bay and create industrial sites, the government dumps more than 1,000 tons of garbage there every day. Since typhoons carried away parts of the barrier that was supposed to contain the offal, it drifts out and forms a putrescent bilge that swills around the city. For a long time, not even her best friends would tell her. Then last week Senior City Councilor Arnaldo de Oliveira Sales took an olfactory tour of Hong Kong in a helicopter and pronounced that even from 300 feet up the place stank. The government promised that Gin Drinkers...