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...farm on which the procedure would take place belongs to Everett King, a burly man in his late 30s whose face is sun-red from his cap line down. King is less troubled by the capsules in his land than by a rabid skunk in the area that might threaten his children, and by a raccoon that commandeered the basketball backboard over the garage and will not back off. Besides missiles and Air Force personnel, King's 5,000 acres contain spring wheat and fallow land in alternating green and brown stripes, a crop of oats, malting barley, a sleepy...
...hard is it to swallow?” asked Princeton coach Roger Hughes. “I can’t think of any taste in my mouth that would be worse than this. I can think of putting a skunk in my mouth, of putting anything in my mouth, and I’m telling you the feeling I have right now [would] be worse...
...world of A Grand is a familiar one, populated by geezers: track-suited young men smoking skunk and watching telly, wandering from pub to kebab shop, filled with an anger as aimless as it is insistent. Yet Skinner's audience stretches far beyond those lads. American kids have taken him in like some exotic distant cousin, and one academic in Britain's Guardian even likened him to Dostoevsky and Pepys, while pondering that "the narrative is constructed round Christ's parable of the lost piece of silver." Skinner's reaction: "I don't read the Guardian." The gap between Skinner...
...UNSEXY ODORS L.A. cops smear skunk-smelling gel to clear prostitutes and johns from crack houses. Next up: stinky gun pellets to scatter them from afar...
...unnoticed into many areas of popular music: Macy Gray's stoned soul bumps up against Perry's scattershot sounds; British electro-DJ samplers Coldcut go head-to-head with him in an "audiovisual clash"; Chicago minimalists Tortoise let the man loose on their mixing desk; and Skin, late of Skunk Anansie, heads an all-star rendition of early songs that Bob Marley cut with Scratch - a bit of a surprise, since Perry claims to have turned his back on reggae music. But then even Perry's most fervent admirers suspect he rocketed out of our solar system some 20 years...