Word: cockroach
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...What time is it?" but "Are we there yet?" We suggest you stick around, for it has enough felicities to induce beguilement, right up to the sweetly supernatural ending. There are also several appealing performances, including one by a fish named Fatty, who obligingly swallows a cockroach dropped into his tank...
...repository for incipient fears. "Temperament also seems to be critical," says Craske. "Two people can go through the exact same traumatic event, but the high-strung, emotionally sensitive person is more vulnerable to the fear." Even secondhand fears--watching Mom or Dad react with exaggerated terror to a cockroach or a drop of blood, for example--may play a role. The journal Nature last week reported a study in which researchers performed scans on the fear centers of volunteers' brains and found that when the subjects were merely told to expect an electric shock, the neurological reaction to the anticipated...
...guides and helpers introduced themselves on our arrival. Mongolians name their children on an I-spy basis. In our four days, we met "Cockroach," "Airplane" and "Axe," and hulking babyweights "5 kg" and "8 kg." Such unwarrior-like sentimentality does not extend to animals, however, and our rides were distinguished simply as "the black one" or "the fat, lazy...
Once upon a time, it seemed that nearly all stories began at the beginning (or even "In the beginning..."). They ended at The End. Then came the 20th century. Stately, plump Buck Mulligan stepped down the opening sentence of Ulysses, Gregor Samsa woke up a cockroach, and nothing was the same anymore. The dream logic of surrealism, the theater of the absurd, the shock edits of the French New Wave all followed. Soon you could have an ape-man throw a bone in the air and--blink--it's an orbiting spaceship...
...DeWolfe: 1. Conveniently located overflow housing for students in various river houses. Comes complete with MTV, dishwasher, refrigerator, bathtub and bay windows. 2. You and everyone else will subsidize these luxury condominiums by suffering in cockroach-infested, cramped doubles when you're sophomores...