Word: beasting
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Dickens was the first novelist who really nailed life in the modern city, and Gaffney's Manhattan, with its horse carts and street urchins, is still recognizably Dickensian. But the New York of Thomas Kelly's Empire Rising, set in 1930, is very much a 20th century beast: caffeinated, electrified, car and money and baseball crazy, with subways rumbling in its bowels and skyscrapers sprouting from its scalp. Kelly's hero, a good-natured Irishman named Michael Briody, is busy riveting together the skeleton of the Empire State Building, which at the peak of construction grew by a floor...
...HUMAN ANIMAL IS A BIZARRE BEAST. HAVING popularized pet yoga, doggie "bark mitzvahs" and other novel anthropomorphisms, animal lovers keep blurring the lines between man and his animal-kingdom friends. And sometimes the animals do the blurring. --By Jeremy Caplan...
...film director, and her actor husband Hobie (Will Ferrell). Shuttling between them as the cause or victim of many an infidelity is Melinda (Radha Mitchell), whose bruised allure men find irresistible--especially Hobie, the whiny Allen stand-in. One look at this wounded creature brings out both the beast and the veterinarian in him. He wants to ravage and save...
...everything is so good, why are investors so glum? Those who fail to take advantage of today's opportunities because of a sense of foreboding and fear of loss remind me of John Marcher, protagonist in Henry James' novella The Beast in the Jungle. Certain that some great misfortune was about to befall him, he failed to marry the woman he loved (lest she share his fate), or to do much of anything, only to realize too late that the great misfortune fate had in store for him was to throw away his life and opportunities because of his excessive...
...both alluring and terrifying. In a stunning Arabesque world map from the 8th century, Beatus of Li?bana, a Benedictine monk who tutored the Spanish royal family, describes India as "famous for gems and elephants," and adds that "there are men of all colors, huge elephants and dragons, the Monoceros beast, the parrot bird, ebony wood, cinnamon, pepper and aromatic reed. It sends forth ivory, precious stones, beryls, adamant burning carbuncles, and pearls." But, he warns, there are also "mountains of gold impossible to approach because of dragons and gryphons and monsters of enormous...