Word: braine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eventually disappeared, leaving behind only fossilized traces of his natural foodstuffs, his indigenous underwear, and his characteristic drug paraphernalia. He left behind no moral lessons, no cultural conundrums worth of opination, but only a stark example of the brutal spiral of natural selection, which fortunately left him with a brain incapable of responding to the printed word. Which means I won't get nuked...
Vasconcellos' task force last week joined an elite company, including Ronald Reagan's brain and Frank Sinatra's college degree, targeted for satire in Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury cartoon strip. Boopsie, the strip's airhead actress, is selected as a task-force member mainly because she has out-of-body experiences. Her reaction: "I can't get over how open this state is to new ideas...
...Theodore Roosevelt's African Game Trails, the record of his 1909 safari. The rhino, wrote Roosevelt, "seemed what he was, a monster surviving over from the world's past, from the days when the beasts of the prime ran riot in their strength, before man grew so cunning of brain and hand as to master them...
...there for the Sunday Love Feast. The prospect of free, genuine Krishna cuisine and an exotic, technicolor religious experience (accompanied in my imagination by the tantalizing possibility of being drugged and brain-washed by sincere baldheaded believers) had been more than enough to excite my curiosity...
...late, and an enthusiastic vocal mishmash of "Hare Hare'' was already pouring from the ceremony room. Parquet floors and velvet-tinsel wallpaper surrounded a gleaming swirl of wooden staircases and crystal chandeliers --it seemed more like a British bed'n'breakfast than an eastern temple, and my brain-washing scenario faded in the face of architectural banality...