Word: butterflyer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saddam, of course, saw it as a symbolic victory ? and he?ll feel even better if Clinton decided to bomb him now. Short of standing in the streets of Baghdad screaming ?come and get me? at passing U-2s, he couldn?t be signaling it any clearer. The reason? It...
Flora and fauna are showing the impact of a hotter planet too. Animals that thrive in warmer climates, like the Edith's checkerspot butterfly in the American West, have begun to extend their range northward, while cold-loving creatures such as brook trout have vanished in some areas. Plants are...
Our concern for education, well intentioned though it may be, has lately manifested itself in an insistence on such standards as test scores or dress codes or class size. But like the tag on a wing of a butterfly, such mandates must be applied gently. Too much testing will cut...
The names of these men are shown only briefly at the start. For the rest of the film they are identified by their eccentric clothing (Ray's plaid shirt and butterfly bow tie) or coiffure (Dave's gravity-defying orange comb-over). And they are defined by their jobs; we...
Which brings us to the most obvious (mis)identity, Mariah as Butterfly. Presumably, the title of the album was meant to connote a metamorphosis, an emergence of maturity from a long period of gestation and development. Sorry, dame. No dice. Mariah Carey needs to follow some of her funkier instincts...