Word: beese
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The National Guard had sealed off lower Manhattan when the great beast was first sighted, and helicopter gunships buzzed like giant killer bees over the East River. But the beast was undeterred. Lusting for some nameless trophy, he climbed down from the top of the New York Post building and...
That spectacle would have made a King Kong-size story for New York, the small but influential weekly that celebrates the life-styles of the city's rich, its powerful and its houseplant owners. (Felker's editors indeed commissioned Cartoonist David Levine to draw a stinging cover portrait of Murdoch...
The event, which one Lampoon staff member called an afternoon of "sophisticated humor," included a "panel discussion" with a piece of wood, jokes about Nicaraguans, quadraplegics and killer bees, and the dropping of a stuffed dummy from the fifth floor of Claverly Hall.
For the moment at least, the South continues to cherish its language. In the South, as in no other American region, people use language as it surely was meant to be employed: a lush, personal, emphatic treasure of coins to be spent slowly and for value. Thus, in Southern idiom...
Bees and grasshoppers have been served as delicacies for years, without upsetting anything worse than people's preconceptions.