Word: buttes
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...will--waiting to be discovered by the visitor who is visually acute. Look hard for the gray elephant trying to tuck herself behind the grayish rock. Flick a peek to one side and catch a pair of two-ton white rhinos who seem to have sleepy-mean eyes to butt the tram (hatari!). And don't miss the gawky East African crowned cranes off to the right. The driver turns on a radio, a sweet Swahili tune (Hapa Dunianai by the Voices of Celebration) wafts through the air, and the cranes turn into an impromptu chorus line, stepping gracefully...
...stink bug backs up to the screen and engulfs the crowd in his sulfurous stench (face it, fart jokes are funny). At the end, the human audience is asked to wait while the bug audience leaves the theater, and--eww!--it feels as if cockroaches are scurrying under your butt...
...excited to be in the sun, to be surrounded by beautiful women, and to get off my butt and get a tan," Gu said...
...Playboy mansion and Dracula's castle. Maybe as some kind of compensatory gesture, the movies have also lately given us the President as cartoonish action hero: Harrison Ford in Air Force One, Bill Pullman in Independence Day--the Commander in Chief as somebody who can do a nice head butt. Musclehead or sex fiend--that's not much of a choice. Before long the only guys suitable for the part will be Jackie Chan and Larry Flynt...
...strange at all. I think of the ways women are expected and acculturated to be in everyday life: polite, non-aggressive if not overtly submissive, attractive. Standing in line at Christie's today, I stared at the cover of some magazine where Sarah Michelle Gellar (the vampire-butt-kicker of Buffy fame) was posed, her head tilted down and body caving inward like some little girl who just had her lollipop taken away. Popular culture seems intent on muting and negating the power of any woman who dares to be even remotely large and aggressive--even if it's only...