Word: amazonian
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...Amazon River; of injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident; in Columbus, Ohio. Tupper first witnessed the misery of South America's poor in 1960 as a U.S. Navy medic and soon dropped plans for a career in plastic surgery to join the priesthood. He first made his Amazonian rounds in a motorboat, but later ministered from a 55-ton refurbished ferryboat named the Esperanqa (Portuguese for Hope...
...veneration of grossness and fatness," says Feminist Author Kate Millett (Sexual Politics) of the Amazonian anatomies she has sculpted out of papier-mâché, chicken wire and liquid cement. Kate's nine-foot sculptures, titled Naked Ladies, go on display next week at the Los Angeles Woman's Building. "I don't know where they came from," muses Millett, 42, who has been sculpting for 18 years. "I guess I just wanted to play around." Among the sculptures: a giant woman pushing a shopping cart, a housewife watching the soaps and chatting on the phone...
Cornell's boxes are not random, and they have an exquisitely ordered syntax. But Cornell rarely supplied a narrative. We do not know what the green Amazonian parrot is doing in Untitled (Parrot Habitat), 1956-57, sitting there in a box lined with mirrors and scraps of print; we have no idea what the white ball and the metal hoops mean to it. But it could not matter less, for these precise, mild, irrational encounters remain the stuff of poetry...
...regards as black opportunists-Ed Yellings' own son, for instance, Street Yellings, a violent militant who has a rape clinic named after him. There is also Ed's daughter Minnie the Moocher ("a lowdown hootchy-kootcher," according to Cab Calloway), whose entourage is a group of Amazonian bodyguards known as the Daho-meyan Softball Team...
...undernourished, the rabbit "resorbs" its embryos in utero. Adams' industrious Hazel, Fiver and Bigwig are pelt-deep fictions; in the real world, male rabbits are lallygagging drones. The does, contrary to those powder puffs in Watership Down, dig the burrows, run the homes and defend their young with Amazonian ferocity against such formidable enemies as the ferret, stoat and weasel...