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...point is obvious--if you can't have what you want, try to want what you have. Poor Harry had only recovered from his sudden disease and his legs straightened out again when he fell into a vat of almost-boiling water, intended for just-slaughtered hogs. In the most starkly written passage of the book, Crews says...
Nevertheless, the lethal drinking continued. Cultists filled their cups from a metal vat on a table at the center of the pavilion, then wandered off to die, often in family groups, their arms wrapped around one another. The tranquilizers in the liquid concocted by the temple's doctor, Larry Schacht, 30, may have dulled their senses; it took about five minutes for them...
More than just a gleam in an advertising man's eye, hot tubs actually exist and are widely used in such areas as Santa Barbara, California. The tub itself is basically a California wine vat adapted for bathing purposes by the addition of pump, filter, heater, water-jets, and lots of water. While some claim that the modern hot tub originated in the '50s among rural dropouts in the Santa Barbara Hills, tubs did not attract much notice in California until four or five years...
...effort to demonstrate graphically the potential hazards of recombinant DNA research at Harvard, Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci challenges a giant, 400-1b. recombinant clam to a wrestling match over a giant vat of linguini, "I'll come away with enough clam sauce for 100 campaigns," he avers. The clam wins, however, and eats the linguini with sauce marinara. Vellucci retires to Taormina, Sicily, to recuperate...
...acre to plant the good vines-though the return can be bountiful: around 3,000 bottles. The further cost of fertilizing, weeding, spraying, pruning, picking, vinification and bottling makes wine a costly enterprise. Then add the investment in sophisticated equipment: a single stainless-steel 1,000-gal. vat can soak the vintner for some...