Reason for all the commotion: an article in Cavalier, a corpuscular magazine with a large barracksroom circulation, that made the Marines' Hymn and many of the corps' proudest .
As for Peter, he has the most muscular, corpuscular death: groovily shotgunned down on his bike in Easy Rider.
In popular imagination, the 20th century metropolis is an indestructible giant all those skyscrapers and subways, all that steel, stone and glass, all that raw, corpuscular .