Word: cousin
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Solipsism is the belief that the whole world is me, and as Mathematician Martin Gardner points out, its authentic version is not to be found outside mental institutions. What is to be found outside the asylum is its philosophic cousin, the belief that the whole world is like me. This species of solipsism-plural solipsism, if you like-is far more common because it is far less lonely. Indeed, it yields a very congenial world populated exclusively by creatures of one's own likeness, a world in which Lincoln pines for his dinner with André or, more consequentially...
Fossey learned to move among the mountain gorillas like an out-of-town cousin and got even closer when she discovered they enjoy being tickled. Such proximity yielded intimate details. Individual animals can readily be identified by their noses; no two have the same shape. Silver backs exude two distinct odors. One smells like a human locker room. The other, a pungent fear scent, is released by glands in the armpit. From the author's descriptions, family life resembles a picnic on the grass. Hulks shamble off to nibble vegetation or lie about contemplating their toes. "Naoom, naoom...
...Exercises of Love. Now he is Tyrone Green, an illiterate convict lionized by radical chic for his vengeful poetry ("Cill My Lanlord") and moving with the mean swagger of a ghetto goon pulling off his toughest scam. A few commercials later, he is Tyrone's spiritual cousin, Film Critic Raheem Abdul Muhammad, fashioning a variation on local-news patter-"Angry Talk"-as he accuses Jerry Falwell's followers of having a sneaking fondness for dirty movies ("The next time I see one of them in a movie line I'm gonna put the majority of my foot...
Ricky Meléndez is the boss's cousin and the only original member of the group remaining. He is also just five months short of 16, and so by contract his Menudo days are numbered. "When their voices change, that changes the sound of the music and that changes everything," explains Díaz. Six earlier members have been sloughed off, and two of the current personnel, Johnny Lozada (a member since 1980) and Miguel Cancel (1981), won't be around much longer. The others are Charlie Rivera, who turned 14 last Monday, and Ray Reyes...
...former Crimson catcher led Harvard in hitting this past season with a .426 average and was voted All-Eastern league and All-New England. Martelli was a four-year varsity starter for Harvard and is the cousin and godson of former Boston Red Sox star Tony Conigliaro...