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Protesters argue that dolphins should not be used by the military in the first place and claim that many are abused when the Navy teaches them to fight and to kill people with snout-mounted .45-cal. guns. Said Richard O'Barry, dolphin trainer for the 1960s television series Flipper and now an opponent of all captivity for the endearing mammals: "We capture them, we use them, we abuse them, then we dump them." Although dolphin expert Joseph Geraci of the University of Guelph in Ontario reported finding no signs that the San Diego center mistreats the creatures, the aquarium...
...lively cartoon art that decorated the noses of American bombers in World War II is making a comeback. Since July, approximately 30 B-52 bombers assigned to the Eighth Air Force in Louisiana have sported 1940s-style snout art. The original creations ranged from feisty cartoon mice to bare-breasted bimbos accompanied by ribald slogans. But in deference to feminist sensibilities, the new versions are much more modest...
...Hold your tickets," Holding says. "We've got a photo for the win." The crowd murmurs with excitement. In seconds he has pulled the Polaroid pack from a superannuated Speed Graphic at the finish line. To a mixture of cheers and groans, he proclaims Pigmalion the winner -- by a snout, of course. Pigmalion's supporters happily line up to get a key ring from Heinold Hog Market of Kouts, Ind., sponsor of the races. Admission and a betting ticket are free. Wagering for money is strictly prohibited...
...near boneless body Bacon once startlingly compared to "a worm crawling down the Cross." There are the humping, grappling figures on pallets or operating tables; the twisted, internalized portraits; the stabbings, the penetrations; the Aeschylean furies pinned against the $ windowpane; and the transformations of flesh into meat, nose into snout, jaw into mandible and mouth into a kind of all-purpose orifice with deadly molars, all of which aspire, in the common view, to the condition of documents. Here, one has been told over and over again, is the outer limit of expressionism: these are the signs of the pessimistic...
Cordless and snout-shaped, the Dustbuster is 14 1/4 in. long and weighs 1.4 lbs. To clean up small domestic disasters, the user grabs the Dustbuster from its wall rack, vacuums up the mess and returns the machine to its base. There, its three nickel-cadmium batteries are recharged so that it will be ready for the next spill. Life expectancy: 150 hours, or five years of 15-to-20-second bursts...