Word: armadillo
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...Cameroon). Tenda Brasil, another stage, is a showcase for up-and-coming young Brazilian acts as well as a few established masters. And finally, there's the main stage, Palco Munda, a huge white tent that looks like a daisy gone to seed or the back of an albino armadillo or a punk rocker with spiky bleached-blank hair. The front of the tent is cut off and the stage is open to an enormous field which is about half full of people. The crowd is mostly young - teens, twentysomethings and thirtysomethings - though the first day is unofficially billed...
...tapir, a large, smooth, big-nosed mammal the size of a small cow. An electric blue butterfly flutters by my ear. Mittermeier snags a vine snake, green and camouflaged in its habitat. Everywhere is a sign of life and death. We pass gaping holes in the earth that giant armadillos call home, and the shell of an armadillo that a jaguar called lunch. A microteiid lizard shoots along a palm leaf lying close to where a column of golden ants marches across our trail...
Bush, too, took pride in the Southern heritageof his adopted hometown. Sunday night, Bushtreated five of the summit leaders to aTexas-style shindig that included a barbeque,armadillo racing, a rodeo and a performance of theGrand Ole Opry...
...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...