Word: squirreled
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Thereafter, however, the film turns almost unbearably dark in tone, as the scientists attempt to stimulate erections and ejaculations electrically, perform mutilating operations in order to study muscle functions, and finally, in its most sickening sequence, briskly and bloodily reduce a living squirrel monkey to a set of microscope slides. The excitement of the researchers rises to almost orgasmic heights in the process, though just what they are doing-other than transforming life into a sliced abstraction-is unclear...
...envisioned by television as infinitely more caring, more loving and free of neurosis than we dare hope to be. Pop, who is nearly always out of work and thus has a lot of time on his hands, is always willing to explain anything from the sex life of the squirrel to the nature of the universe. Mom spends most of her time shelling peas and chatting it up across every imaginable communications gap. The stranger at their door, though generally troubled, is rarely dangerous; his problems are readily soluble through immersion in the pot of tolerance, good will and homely...
Cogan asks around and soon gets the skinny: Squirrel Amato set up the job and two small-time hoods named Frankie and Russell pulled it. But Tratt man has to die anyway. His customers think he is guilty, Cogan explains, and won't come back to the game until he is "whacked out." The whacking is done with shuddery efficiency. Cogan drifts up beside Trattman's Coupe de Ville and pumps five shots through a side window...
...about 15 miles away. In lieu of call numbers, truckers prefer more personal "handles." These nicknames rip through the air waves, sounding like the cast of Looney Tunes; Woodpecker tears by hi the night with his co-driver Stogie; Number One Nose Picker noses ahead of his good buddy Squirrel. Not to be outhandled, other truckers are known as Popper Stopper, Bootlegger, Mule Skinner and Silver Fox. Even the handful of women truckers enter the naming game. Granny Go Go, Lovey Dovey and Truckin' Mama barrel on down the highway with the boys...
...been a playwright (Next of Kin) as well as a minor novelist, and his dialogue demonstrates an admirable ability to leave out the unnecessary clutter that so often drowns sofa-stuffed historicals in sobs and expostulations. His descriptive powers, though, do not rise to such simple things as a squirrel hunt or a day's lazy fishing in the local creek...