Word: ante
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...bodied on the shoulder of a country road, is a giant anteater, who offers to serve as Rickman's guide in unraveling the mystery of Kingdom's haunting. The beast warns Rickman to conserve his strength and watch for the hospital's wandering ghost girl--and licks off an ant crawling across Rickman's face. "Yum!" says the spirit creature. "Ant-solutely delish...
...Union of Australia. A secret workforce was trained in Dubai, and security guards in balaclavas moved in with Rottweilers to take over Australia's docks (the waterside workers later won their case in court). Across town, at the Belvoir Street Theatre, another late-'90s battle is being restaged. 'An ant is small," says one of the footy fans of Alana Valentine's Run Rabbit Run, 'but if you get enough ants in a bed, they'll drive a man crazy." In this case, the man was Rupert Murdoch, and the ants were members of the South Sydney Rugby League Club...
...incoming planes, where the billboards all urged yanjing and the air reeked of roasted barley. In Dublin, Guinness anchors a working neighborhood; Milwaukee's Miller shoulders freeways and a ballpark; and in Beijing I expected industriousness to spill from Yanjing's kegs into the streets. Our cab would follow ant lines of tricycles, one rolling in empty, one clinking out full, past packed restaurants; and there would be Germans, lots of jolly Germans, licking foam from facial hair and shouting for another round. But the empty boulevard carried us in efficient quietness to the gates of Yanjing's Mansion...
DIED. DOUG MICHELS, 59, avant-garde artist and architect who co-founded the San Francisco-based "underground architecture" studio Ant Farm; in a fall while climbing alone to a whale observation point; near Sydney, Australia. In 1974, he installed the famed "Cadillac Ranch" in Amarillo, Texas. The outdoor sculpture's 10 Cadillacs, thrust nose-down in the ground, were taken to represent the decline of U.S. industry...
...already broken on an overcast day on the northern front. Throughout the attack the troops showed no signs of movement. It wasn't until mid-morning, after Saddam's I'm-still-here television address, that his soldiers appeared above ground. Soon dozens of men were walking in ant-like in single files along the ridge carrying packages that could not be made out through binoculars. A large military truck came over the rise, stopping at the major bunker before passing along between a number of smaller others, stopping at points and triggering great commotion. "This is very, very unusual...