The New Yorker, 2005-07-25

[fiefoe]

"Dept. of Tryouts: Low Notes" / Ryan D'Agostino
__ "what kind of G-string do you have?" he asked. "Only in a bass audition could you say that to a woman."

"Spinoff Dept: Reporter Guy" / David Remnick
__ (Del Close) bequeathed his skull to the Goodman Theatre, in Chicago. His hope was that he could play Yorick into eternity.

"Shouts & Murmurs: My Dog Is Tom Cruise" / Noah Baumbach
__ I can’t even describe it ... we chased squirrels ... frisked, you know ... she likes to be physical, too ... and to fetch and ... We’re like anyone. We tore into this shoe and just had a ball. I’ll see her tomorrow on my 8 a.m. I am happy. I am ... hahahahahaha! She is a wonderful, wonderful animal. I can’t ... words don’t ... owooooo!

"The Terrorism Beat" / William Finnegan

"Bloodsuckers" / John Colanpinto

• The second leech reacted similarly. "It's your hair products," Peters told Cunningham. With a wet cloth, he cleaned the hair around the ear and tried again. This time, the leech brushed its head against the bruised flesh and latched on.
• ... followed by a strong solution of alcohol, which killed it... "Think about it," he said. "it's like a dirty needle - that can walk."
• ... only the second time that the (F.D.A) had authorized such a use for a live animal. (Maggots, which can be applied to wounds to consume infected tissue, were approved in January, 2004.)
• Wordsworth wrote about a dispirited leech collector in his 1802 poem "Resolution and Independence."
  
• The leeches  can live for more than a year on a single meal.
• Because leeches are hermaphrodites, they can fertilize each other during the act of reproduction.
• Since medicinal leeches are an endangered species in Europe, they are subject to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
  

"Constabulary Notes (from the Salem (Mass.) News)"
__ Officers responded to Beverly High School around 8 a.m. after someone reported a "suspicious sea gull" near an entrance to the school.

"Red Planet" / James Wood
__ (Cormac McCarthy)'s sentences are comma-less convoys, articulated only by the Biblical "and".
__ 'The horses stepped archly amon the shadows that fell over the road."
__ a rising paragraph of ornate plaint
__ What appears to be thought is in fact suppressed thought, the mere ratification of male tactiurnity.

Anthony Lane: (Billy Wonka) is what Macbeth would call a cream-faced loon; "Pirates".. period heartiness

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