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...massacre. Horses bellies are slit open, guts hanging out. Humans lie full of bullet holes. The riders dismount and wade through the puddles of blood to explore the carnage. Due to the gaudiness of the color (which continues throughout the film) the blood looks quite a bit like Ocean Spray cranberry juice. (It may in fact be Ocean Spray cranberry juice.) But one thing is definitely real--the slaughtered animals. This is Mexico, not the Land of the Free. There is no strong ASPCA leaning over Jodorowsky's shoulder...
Mayor Julio Rodrigues used his meager municipal funds to send two DDT sprayers through the town. The spray made some people vomit, but the crickets "just licked it off and kept on coming," said Schoolteacher Mariestela Barros. Some Altinhos thought the plague was a sign that God was displeased with long hair, miniskirts, rock music and the decrease in churchgoing among Altinho's youth. But Dona Nina Lemos, another of the town's schoolteachers, questioned that notion. She wondered: "If God were going to punish clothing styles, wouldn't he send a plague...
Highlights of the demonstration were a six-foot tall, female Indian elephant--variously referred to as "Popsie," "Pachyderm," and "Hey You"--and a march down Massachusetts Avenue that succeeded in interrupting the flow of traffic not even long enough for the folks at Krackerjacks to mount their spray-sloganed, aluminum antitrashing barriers...
...lagoons slowly filled, district engineers, aided by technicians from the University of Illinois, tested sludge in demonstration projects. The results were startling. The soupy product was easy to spray where needed with standard irrigation equipment and did not smell bad -both distinct advantages over animal manure. Better yet, used as a soil nutrient, it caused clay and even silicate sand to bloom. Still, nobody wanted sludge because of its despised origins. "We flew thousands of miles looking for people to take it," says Ben Sosewitz, general superintendent of the district. "Some people laughed at us. Though we had developed economical...
...Spray. District officials did not need to be asked twice. After buying 7,000 acres, they set up a small test project. "It was amazing," says Bart T. Lyman, chief of maintenance and operations. "Corn planted on three acres of land treated with sludge grew eight feet tall. By comparison, the stalks on two acres of untreated land were stunted, only three feet high...