Word: cousin
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...Aesop’s fable “The Country Mouse and the City Mouse,” a mouse from the hinterlands visits his big-city cousin who has long bragged about the superior fare city larders offer. The country mouse finds that while city food is rich, his cousin can partake only by risking his life in a trap or at a cat’s jaws. After narrowly avoiding being eaten on one of these death-defying food forays, the country mouse returns home to enjoy his humble meals in peace...
That first book, "Double Happiness" (Shiga Books; 72 pp.; $4.95), self-published through a grant by the invaluable Xeric Foundation begins when Tom, a shy Chinese-American who barely knows how to hold chopsticks, travels from Boston to San Francisco. There he meets a distant cousin immigrant who introduces him to the city's Chinatown. Tom learns to squat on the balls of his feet, wins money at a smoky mah-jongg club, and starts to fall for Li Jian, the cute girl whose karaoke version of "Hey, Jude" is "Hey, Jute." She teaches him to read the fruit merchant...
...electronic grime of El-P (the anti-Timbaland) to the obtuse bohemian leanings of the Anticon clique. Though he’s flexed his lyrical muscles with nearly all of them, Slug brandishes his own critic-approved designations: “emo rap” and its unfortunately named cousin “smart...
...Post-show in(s)anity. Kirby’s 30-year-old cousin Dustin offers to buy me a shot, though he insists, “I’m not a groupie.” I later find out he’s an accountant...
...executives that mentioned how many shares of their company stock he held in the state pension fund--and by the way, could they help get a relative a job? In the case of Verizon in 1997, it was for his daughter Marci; at Coca-Cola, for a cousin. It didn't help that McCall was slow to answer the charges, other than to say he wasn't asking for special treatment. But he sent aides to the state archives to scoop up boxes of formerly public letters that hesaid had been released by mistake during an office move. Upon examination...