Word: snaking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...milking pit, Mike Brentz, a burly offshore oil worker, lifts a snake from a garbage can and places it on a small center table. Carefully he flattens and immobilizes its head with a hook and picks it up just behind the jaw. He sticks the tail between his legs to keep it from coiling free and hangs the snake's fangs over a glass beaker. When he squeezes, a teaspoon of venom drips out. Then he walks around the pit giving spectators a close-up of the snake's satiny pink mouth, its curved fangs, black tongue. When Kelly Head...
...float; the Sweetwater High band; Dr. Michael Dainer, the town ob-gyn, with his Clydesdale and buggy; the Nolan County sheriff's posse) and a beauty-queen contest in which 21 of the town's young women vie for a scholarship prize of $1,000 and the title Miss Snake Charmer...
Inside the coliseum, spectators can watch snake handling by professional snake wranglers. There is also snake milking, butchering, gutting and skinning, the last done with the help of visibly squeamish volunteers from the beauty pageant dressed in blood-spattered lab coats. Three-dollar bus tours for those who want to see the snakes in their natural habitat leave every hour. A cook shack is busy producing corn dogs ($1) and deep-fried rattlesnake meat ($1). Take a bite; it tastes like turtle...
...parking lot near the coliseum, a guided hunt is being organized. Participants have paid $29 for registration and for hunting equipment -- snake tongs and hooks made from recycled golf clubs, a snakebite kit, hand mirrors, garbage cans to hold live rattlesnakes and a spray can with a long copper tube filled with unrefined gas for flushing the snakes from their dens. This is the snake-hunting-as-a-sport group, and its members come from as far away as Canada. Hunting garb ranges from Reeboks and jeans to paramilitary Indiana Jones attire, including boots with a side knife and scabbard...
Director Michael Radford is clearly less interested in restating this conclusion than he is in re-creating the crime's steaming social context. One noble lady (Sarah Miles) is introduced wearing a very large snake coiled chummily about her neck. Later she will commit a sexual act that may be unprecedented in general-release movies. Another titled woman (Jacqueline Pearce) will rise naked from her bath to lead her assembled guests -- of both sexes -- in a genial discussion of who will accompany her to bed. A rancher (the late Trevor Howard, in his last role) has cut a peephole...