Word: armadillo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...predestination. As usual, Irving delivers a boisterous cast, a spirited story line and a quality of prose that is frequently underestimated, even by his admirers. On the other hand, the novel invites trespass by symbol hunters. One can easily imagine college sophomores arguing over the meaning of a stuffed armadillo that has had its claws removed, or the significance of Wheelwright's carrying his small friend on his shoulders to slam-dunk a basketball. For graduate students there is the fact that Meany shares more than initials with Oskar Matzerath, the runt hero of Gunter Grass's masterpiece...
...Those are armadillo tracks," says Jim Baker. "And that's a coyote turd...
...still playing oldies shows and medium-size concert dates and bumping around the boonies, and he is still hollering defiance. Last week, at a joint called the Lonesome Armadillo in Roseville, Calif., Jerry Lee got to a part of the Trouble in Mind lyric that goes "Put me six feet in the ground" and interpolated, "I throw the dirt right in your face...
Anyone for an Armadillo...
...single warhead would probably carry a 500-kiloton punch, in contrast to MX's ten warheads, each with a 330-kiloton, independently targeted payload. Some Pentagon experts contend that a design breakthrough will permit the small missile to be moved about on a heavily armored vehicle dubbed the Armadillo. This launcher would be anchored when firing and be stable enough to handle the missile's blast-off force, yet light enough to be transported by helicopters...