Word: sperms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shag carpets lit by the desolate glare of TV sets, of king-size beds seen as altars of suburban promiscuity, and blue swimming pools that slyly parody David Hockney's less tainted vision of a Californian Eden. It smells of unwashed dog, Bar-B-Q lighter fluid and sperm. It is permeated with voyeurism and resentful, secretive tumescence -- a theater of adolescent tension and adult anonymity. Fischl paints this world of failed intimacies with conviction and narrative grip: at best, his drawing is beautifully concise (though marred, at present, by too many botched and hasty passages...
...heft could even trigger infertility. In 1946 a paleontologist concluded that because large animals do not shed excess heat as efficiently as small animals do, a temperature increase of just 2 degrees F could have baked the considerable testicles of a ten-ton male dinosaur enough to kill his sperm...
Japan displays arrogance in its flagrant disregard of the International Whaling Commission's ban on sperm-whale hunting. The U.S., however, is equally at fault in deciding to sidestep its own statutes and "cut a deal" with the Japanese...
...head of the U.S. delegation to the IWC's 1981 meeting, agrees. "What the Administration is actually doing is caving in to Japanese pressure," he says. "The U.S. has not won a promise from Japan to end commercial whaling and may not even have a deal to limit sperm whaling." Conservation groups have sent U.S. Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige a letter documenting Japanese whale kills this year and urging him to "certify" the Japanese as violators of the IWC agreement. If he does not, they say they will take the Government to court. William Rogers, who represents...
...served by JAL to ticket passengers on other carriers. But there is some fear that the protests will be too late and that the U.S. reluctance to censure the Japanese might encourage other nations to resume whaling. That could bring to an end the decade-long effort to save sperm whales from depletion. In Hasui's view, that is not a problem because, he says, the annual Japanese catch is a tiny fraction of the estimated 200,000 sperm whales in the oceans. Nor is there a substitute for the whale: in Japan, whalemeat is a prized delicacy...