Word: scorpion
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...buoyancy of his creamy, elegiac visual style. He interrupts the naturalism of lives on the skids with scenes of shocking surrealism: an old goat-man slaughters a calf; Mieze's corpse turns to soft-focus glitter, as if she had become in death a Hollywood star; a scorpion clambers up the entwined legs of two lovers, across the woman's breast and into the bloody gape of her slit throat. In the past, Fassbinder had seemed a master without masterpieces, teasing with his outsize talent but never quite delivering. And now, posthumously, a glorious surprise. Berlin Alexanderplatz...
...Hong Kong (1236 Mass Ave): Odds are that you have heard of the Kong. If you haven't, you soon will--and odds are even higher that by the end of the summer you will have sampled the Kong's notorious. Scorpion Bowl Droves flock to the garish pink building every day of the week except Monday, when it's closed. The first floor is primarily Chinese food and the second is a bar (read: chaos) with masses of students from all over Boston edging for an open space in which to sip their Bowl with 10 ounces of liquor...
...Chen, on Mass Ave., and Lucky Garden, on Concord Ave. lead the pack in the hotly contested race for the hearts of Cambridge's sinophiles. Yenching, also on Mass Ave. Wei Ta, on Winthrop St., and Ta Chien, on Eliot are all adequate The Hong Kong is still for scorpion bowls, not egg footing, its routed new chef notwithstanding And Yung and Yee on Church St is still unknown by most Cantabrigians not without good cause...
...Grays Hall, a group of freshmen combined the tribute to M*A*S*H on four T.V. sets with a birthday celebration by quaffing a "Korean version of the Scorpion Bowl...
...boats slice through the kelp; helicopters panic the ducks; mines are planted far out near the gorse and heather. This is what war does to a landscape. The place that was a few weeks ago a vast serenity with marvelously fresh air is now "a major bridgehead," home to Scorpion light tanks and Rapier surface-to-air missiles and all the other accouterments of the most advanced mayhem...