Word: worming
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...sticks up like the little bald ball on top of a flagpole. His nose and his chin all but meet in front of his mouth, as though trying to hiri-d-and well they might. His mouth is a little round hole that looks as if a big fat worm lived down there-and one does. Beneath the comic mask is a tragic figure: Capannelle has a tapeworm and no teeth...
...Birdie. Broadway musicals, like rural beauty-contest winners, rarely survive a round trip to Hollywood without a loss of innocence. This one, a lampoon on the visit of a gyro-pelvic pop singer to Sweet Apple, Ohio, had an apple-cheekiness about it on the stage that seems slightly worm-eaten on film, and the result is more goof than spoof...
...Golfers Association rule book there are 34 definitions, 41 rules with 120 sections and 156 subsections; for professional tournament play the P.G.A. makes six exceptions of its own. These cover everything that can happen to a golfer from clobbering a spectator with a ball (no penalty) to brushing away worm droppings while in a hazard (two strokes). But nowhere, as Arnold Palmer discovered in last week's $35,000 Phoenix Open, do the rules say anything about bumblebees...
...Hero Jerry, a TV repairman whose knob is on the fritz, stands to inherit a billion dollars, but he doesn't know it. An unscrupulous attorney (Zachary Scott) and his sinister sidekick (Jack Weston) know it very well, and they decide to make worm food of Jerry before Jerry finds out. The sidekick tries to run him down with his big, black, shark-shaped limousine-Jerry falls in a manhole just in time. The sidekick tries to prang him with a high-powered rifle-Jerry is so jerky that the punk just can't hold...
...serums and vaccines, leaking lifeboats." All pity is mockery ("Yes I know it all. The finance company is repossessing your wife's artificial kidney. They are evicting your grandmother from her iron lung"). All degradations are cherished: a coroner named Autopsy Ahmed makes a fortune peddling an Egyptian worm that "gets into your kidneys and grows to an enormous size. Ultimately the kidney is just a thin shell around the worm. Intrepid gourmets esteem the flesh of the worm above all other delicacies. It is said to be unspeakably toothsome." Most sex is homosexual...