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...rice farmer in the northeast. "I barely made enough to feed myself," he says. Now, on a good night, he can make $80 in profit. Somkid, a dancer in a nearby go-go bar, says her foreign boyfriends-for-the-night are revolted when they see her scarfing down scarab beetles. But as she plucks the legs off a locust so she can suck out its eggs, Somkid claims her dietary habits have never cost her a customer. "Why should it? They're delicious," she says. "Foreigners eat some pretty strange things...
...slathered in goop. At the Louvre, Dutch duo Viktor & Rolf unveiled their Black Hole line, featuring models dressed entirely in black clothing and covered in black makeup, leaving only their freaky glowing eyes for illumination. Meanwhile, Bernhard Willhelm took inspiration for his collection from the dung-gathering rites of scarab beetles, decorating the faces of his living dolls with an application of something that looked a lot like manure. It smelled a lot more like desperation...
Last year two other sophisticated U.S. ROVs, Scarab 1 and Scarab 2, reached the wreckage of Air-India Flight 182, which plunged into the North Atlantic 110 miles southwest of Ireland on June 23. Scarab 1 located and retrieved the 747's voice and flight-data recorders from a spot 6,700 ft. deep, while Scarab 2 mapped and photographed the wreckage, some of which was later retrieved. Their achievements enabled experts to determine that the jet's forward baggage hold had been ripped apart in the air, almost certainly by a bomb...
...succinctly, Menenhetet's life is a long series of extraordinary feats such as running over a mountain, carrying a chariot or slaying more Hittites than you could ever shake a scarab at--and crashing humiliations like getting exiled to a desert outpost and being sodomized (more than once) by the Pharaoh. These events are punctuated by various hexes and incantations, long processions to one temple or another, descriptions of statues and animals and peasants and eunuchs (many eunuchs) and life in the seraglio and the smell of different perfumes and incenses and precious stones and robes and linens...
...other evidence of his Chicago popularity might have the pharaoh twirling in his tomb: pyramid hair styles, Cleopatra eye makeup, scarab rings, mummy bead necklaces, wallpaper sporting Egyptian goddesses, Tut towel and pillow sets. The newest disco dance is a stimulating shuffle called the King Tut Strut. One women's shop has achieved the living end in Egyptian necrophilia: its main window features a mannequin wrapped in masking tape to look like a mummy...