Word: slothfulness
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...enter the park and, instead of a Main Street or Spaceship Earth, you see paths with no special markers leading you know not where. This is the Oasis, a riot of trees where cast members will point you toward the greenery so you can see a snoozing two-toed sloth in one tree, a couple of military macaws skirmishing in another. Then you reach the park's central icon, the Tree of Life, a 145-ft.-high broccoli stalk--actually an oil rig festooned with fake bark and 103,000 artificial leaves, each attached by hand--into which 325 creatures...
...ecstasy, arms stretched out imploringly) that he was parodying the very idea of crooner; he was a mellow modernist. You could also peg Dino as an anachronism, a Joe E. Lewis saloon-lush type, the party animal in a tux. Or maybe he was the first slacker, elevating sloth to a Zen art. The stupefaction he radiated on his TV show--the Golddiggers dancing around him as wildly as Jer used to, Dean standing there like a lamppost after a car wreck--made him the ideal m.c. for the years when American industry and entertainment stumbled into decadence...
Someone is murdering people in a series patterned after the seven deadly sins (Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Pride, Lust, Envy and Wrath). Sommerset and Mills start on the first case, Gluttony, together. They find the most obese man they have ever seen ("Somebody call Guinness," says Mills) dead at his dinner table. He has been forced to eat himself to death. It sounds farfetched. It isn't. Their precinct captain wants them to investigate as a team, but Sommerset quickly pulls the plug. He has had a premonition, and not only does he not want to be involved in the case...
...like this?" Sommerset keeps looking straight ahead and, after a pause, says "No." That's damned right. We have pools of blood, feces, vomit, roaches, decomposition, forced self-mutilation and some of the most brutal tortures you can imagine. Along with some you probably can't (watch out for Sloth and Lust...
When the final version of Win '95 ships (next century, perhaps?) Phase One of your master plan will be complete. A generation of college sloth, cut from your exemplary mold, will be born. Programmed to do your bidding, they will lead all users at Harvard down your wise path of computing. The Microsoft Revolution, unfinished when you expectedly left in the late 1970's, will finally be realized...