Word: preyed
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...moth's spikes, a scant 26 ten-thousandths of an inch long, provide it with an automatic lifesaving device. Without them, says Callahan, the slow and conspicuous insects would probably take wing during daylight. And if they did so, they would make themselves easy prey for birds...
...last week after Frey told Ford and Knudsen of his plans, he quietly flew off to Manhattan for a string of job interviews. Not that he is really pounding the pavements. Prey's requirements: chief operating officer of a medium-sized company, preferably grounded in technology and involved in the design, manufacture and sale of a product-and, presumably, in need of a few better ideas...
Still, there is a certain substance behind this elusive shadow play. Osborne has drawn a portrait of the artist in a middle-aged funk, a prey to the 5 a.m. hoo-ha's, chronically in pain, unappeasably romantic, listening in self-pity and dread to time's metronome ticking away with deadly austerity. Paul Scofield profiles Laurie with meticulous care, but he cannot quite manage that sudden, sneering, swooping descent into vulgarity that Osborne demands. When Scofield has to talk about some woman giving "the golden sanitary towel award," he seems to be holding the line...
...reams of red tape. In the 1950s, when the Grand Prix was awarded to established artists, the avant-garde snarled about outdated academism. In the 1960s, when the prizes went to raffish radicals like Robert Rauschenberg and Julio Le Pare, the rear guard sneered that Venice was falling prey to fashion and backstage conspiracies...
SUBMARINE duty in the U.S. Navy is known as "the silent service," and for grim reason. In two world wars, combat subs have cloaked themselves in quiet while stalking enemy prey, and even in the deepwater missions of peace, their nuclear-powered successors maintain infrangible radio silence for as long as 13 days at a time. Last week, with the almost certain loss of U.S.S. Scorpion, that silence appeared tragically unwise and probably unnecessary...