Word: preying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...canary lady" who never leaves her empty birdcages, an enormously fat opera singer, a blind black man with at least seven senses, and Mr. Shapeshade, the owner of an obsolete cinema with one word on the marquee: GOODBYE. They and other harmless old creatures are the apparent prey of Mr. Lonely Death, "a happy child in the fields of the Antichrist." With the aid of a local detective who would rather be writing novels, the narrator winnows a weird field of suspects and runs the killer to earth, or in this case sand. Thereupon "all the souls...
...travels through the bloodstream in round bundles of fat and protein called lipoproteins. Like Venus's-flytraps, vacant LDL receptors snare the passing packets. The lipoproteins are rapidly broken down in the cell, and the cholesterol is freed for use, while the receptor returns to the membrane, ready for prey...
...clear Tuesday morning when the eight sleek warplanes peeled off over the faintly ruffled waters of the Gulf of Tunis in the western Mediterranean. They were a long way from home, and they wasted little time. While the others hovered high over the sea like watchful birds of prey, the first two jets swooped down on the beach, so low that startled and incredulous bystanders on the shore could pick out the Star of David on the planes' flashing silver tails. A volley of bombs and missiles streaked into a cluster of sand-colored buildings squatting among palms and pine...
What is the explanation for this murderousness? Why are blacks disproportionately represented as victims and victimizers, as predators and prey? One partial explanation, some experts contend, is the hopelessness that pervades the urban ghetto, which fosters a kind of street-corner nihilism, a feeling that nothing is worth anything. Says James M. Evans Jr., a social worker who organized a workshop last year in Washington on the subject of black-on-black violence: "They believe they have nothing to lose. Even if they should lose their own lives, they feel they will not have lost very much. Besides, why should...
...utilizes a gift for gab, a talent for making "the old feel young and the poor feel rich," as one friend puts it. Bunting favors disguises, what he calls "hidebehinds," becoming everything from a fish peddler to a buck dancer in order to confuse or disarm his prey. When these tricks fail, he calls upon oratorical ammunition. Confronted with some violators intent on ambushing him, he announces: "It is my duty to inform you that I am slick with a gun. I don't want to meet you in the Great Beyond and have you telling me that I didn...