Word: wormed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artist Artzybasheff can retire on the merits of the Gromyko cover alone (TIME, Aug. 18). The significance of the worm, Veto, devouring the fruit of the olive branch, hit me right between the eyes...
While it is impossible to restrain a smile at the sight of this comical little monster, one wonders how many will smile when the worm, having ravaged the fruit, will have attained the proportions of a dragon...
...reader with pointless vulgarity (". . .a faint, sour reek of vomit came from her delicate mouth. Mathieu inhaled it ecstatically"). Existentialists may deny that such scenes are introduced for sensationalism's sake, but they have not explained why it is necessary to expound their doctrine solely from a worm's eye view of life. What one of the characters calls "the freemasonry of the urinal" will seem, to many readers, an accurate description of Sartre's own books...
Earthworms come in some 2,200 varieties, ranging in size from the one-inch species that inhabit old logs to the seven-foot Gippsland giant of Australia. Some affect bright colors, including purple, blue and green. Regeneration of lost tails-and sometimes heads-is only one of the worm's accomplishments. A hermaphrodite, the earthworm carries both male & female reproductive organs in its many-segmented body. But two worms normally cross-fertilize each other; experts doubt that a single worm ever acts as both father & mother of its own eggs...
...merchant: "You little-devil-just -out -of -your -mother's -womb, how dare you try to catch a fly on the tiger's head! If the price of rice is high, why are we merchants to blame? Take care lest one of your ancestors was a rice worm-in which case you're cursing your own forefathers. Be reasonable or you may regret it. . . ." Undaunted, Little Happiness sang...