The “wriggling and wraggling” of the fish in their mother's guts evokes the seething waters that expelled Pilate's body.

Eating with the kind of bingeful disregard that regains every pound you ever lost, […]

But before Three and Four [Generating plants from Montana Power that use coal from Colestrip to generate power] was built, everything that was hauled in [to the mine] was on a belly dumper.

Meanwhile, on another plane entirely, “Another Period” (Comedy Central, recently renewed for Season 2) is a send-up of crunchy-gravel dramas, set in tony Rhode Island in 1902.