Word: duckness
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...needs all its parts-pinhole, lens, light-sensitive surface-in order to work? It's no accident, says Michael Behe, author of Darwin's Black Box, that the eye resembles a camera, which everybody instantly recognizes as a product someone designed. "If it looks, walks and quacks like a duck," Behe writes, "then absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrent to conclude it's a duck...
...park's success isn't a sure thing. Disney faces a special hurdle in China. Until a few years ago, hardly anyone knew Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck even existed. Disney characters were banned for nearly 40 years after Mao's takeover. Now Chinese kids are familiar with the classic characters--in part from pirated DVDs--but their knowledge of Disney lore is limited. "This is the first market where we've opened a park in which we don't have a long-term relationship with our guests," says Rasulo...
...inclusion of Bollywood movies, like Satyajit Ray's Apu trilogy." Sean Williams, of Los Angeles, wrote, "I have 1,000 favorite films, so I know how hard it is to choose only 100, and you can't please everyone. Still, I would have listed the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup. THANKS FOR INCLUDING BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN; SOME READERS MIGHT COMPLAIN, BUT IT'S A GREAT FILM." Less impressed was Alexander Shectman of Jerusalem, who said, "My Russian patriotism was offended by the absence of the films of Sergei Eisenstein, and I was astonished to see that those of D.W. Griffith shared...
...lease on life. But Blair's final term has been transformed. When he won re-election two months ago--his parliamentary majority was cut from 161 to 67, mostly because of anger over how he oversold the war in Iraq--there was much talk of his becoming a lame duck whose power would quickly drain to his heir apparent, Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...chose the right words and kept things short, and those are two secrets to being timelessly funny. My favorite example was after the battle of Chickamauga. One of the Union generals had behaved badly and had become unnerved. Lincoln said the general was 'confused and stunned like a duck hit on the head.' You don't have to think about that in the context of 1863. It's just a funny image--full of anger and bitterness but getting deeply to the truth...