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...Their courtly language lacks pronouns-Papik refers to himself as "a man" -and the same selflessness marks their customs. "Be one!" Papik says, urging another hunter to share his wife. In fact, Inuit share everything from basic emotion to their most irresistible delicacy-a violet paste made of bird slime, seal guts, maggoty meat, rotten blubber and premasticated birds. Papik's father deliberately wounds himself to make his injured son less lonely in his pain...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON, Doctor of Gonzo Journalism, is like the Creature from the Bottom of the Deep. Dripping with the swampy, polluted waters of the seventies, shaking off the slime and lurching out on to the land, he is by now one of the most exciting journalistic voices in America. As a victim of our time he has learned to speak its language--of drugs, of violent energy, of The Fear. And then, turning upon it enraged, with instincts born out of the furtive life of the underground mind, he pounces on the most visceral and alarming rhythms...
...friend before the arrest, Niesewand said: "The worst part is the grinding social pressure -not knowing whether one or both of us will be attacked for being Commie rats. As one lady put it at a recent dinner party, why don't I pull myself out of the slime in which I wallow...
...Thanks to the Supreme Court decision on capital punishment [July 10], we the people must provide free food, clothes, housing and medical care for creatures that have wriggled up out of earth's primal slime. Unless, as is likely, the parole boards turn them loose once again upon society...
...often called in the region-are an ugly but common sight in West Virginia. Like the one at Buffalo Creek, which was owned by the Buffalo Mining Co., a subsidiary of the Manhattan-based Pittston Co., they are built up from the residue that results from washing coal. The slime and silt settle, and the water that backs up behind the slag heap is often used again for washing the coal. Such dams in West Virginia have breached before. After the flood, the U.S. Geological Survey disclosed that in 1967 West Virginia state officials were warned that four waste piles...