Word: viscera
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fatback, or "white meat," is the layer of fat between the pig's skin and its viscera. It is usually three or four inches thick, and it makes up the majority of a pig's bulk. It has, of course, a high caloric value, and is great for keeping human bodies alive at low cost. But steady meals of fatback, grits, and vegetables swimming in melted fatback are guaranteed to produce lethargy, ill health, and braindamaged children...
Along with everything else, art has gone electric. It was bound to come in an age when light bulbs turn winter into spring in the greenhouses, when man's best-hidden viscera are laid bare and shining beneath the surgeon's spotlights, when murders have been witnessed on the television screen, and when the newest mind-expanding drug, in the words of one user, "makes your body feel like a conductor for tens of thousands of volts...
...time for the opening last week. Magnani played Medea the way she saw it, chewing up a little scenery along the way. The critics were pretty dubious about it all. "Magnani is a popular personage whereas Medea is not," said II Tempo. She portrayed her role "more with her viscera than with her head...
...Grenier declares Goldfarb "in his poetry, altogether spiritual." Yes, Goldfarb achieves fire and air by adopting and digesting the realm of earth and water -- viscera mundi. Alimentary metaphors reign...
Obligingly, Harry slithers into a cauldron of bubbling body organs and coiling viscera. Now a gallery of all the women he has ever known flips on and oft, on and off, mid-screen. "All girls are yours!" the Guide exclaims. He points to one, saying: "See her stamen trembling for the electric penetration of pollen." Then Harry is rudely thrust back into a dizzying montage, "The Neurological Chess Game" of everyday life. Abruptly he is told: "It's time to play the game of death." Harry reaches for a girl-and compulsively strangles her. A hangman dangles a noose...