Word: dwarf
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...because when I went to see “The Butterfly Effect” with two friends my junior year in high school, we accidentally went an hour early. So to kill time, we went to Petsmart to look at dogs, and ended up purchasing a male Siberian dwarf hamster we named Diva.Diva led a short but action-packed life as he was passed covertly from house to house. When I found one of his other owners feeding him a pencil (“Well he sleeps in wood shavings!”) I intervened and gained full custody...
Clayton D. Miller ’10 doesn’t look like someone who would casually refer to himself in conversation as a Level 68 Dwarf Priest. Disarmingly polite, with a large buckled belt and a baseball cap that proudly reads “The Virginian,” Miller is every bit the Southern gentleman. And yet, surprisingly, every bit the World of Warcraft enthusiast.“You think you won’t be into it ‘til you try it,” he drawls. “Like Harry Potter...
David Lynch and Mark Frost made something really weird happen, and I'm not talking about Laura Palmer's murder, a dancing dwarf or a Log Lady. They turned prime-time TV into a giant indie art-house theater, and regular American channel surfers by the millions became its denizens. The story of a teen girl's death--and the pie-eating, deadpan-soliloquy-spouting FBI agent investigating it--carried on the theme from Lynch movies like Blue Velvet of sordid secrets and ancient horrors hidden behind a faade of wholesome Americana, proving that TV could equal or surpass...
...jagged gorges that now cradle the river. Constructed by the Huaneng Group, China's biggest power producer, Xiaowan dam is the nation's second-largest power project after the Three Gorges. As the biggest of the eight dams China plans for its portion of the Mekong, Xiaowan will dwarf the two hydropower projects that have already been built in Yunnan. Given that half the Mekong basin's water comes directly from China during the dry season, scientists worry that Xiaowan will act as a spigot that controls the destiny of millions of people in five countries. Environmental groups estimate that...
...funny, if occasionally out-of-control, black farce, Death at a Funeral, in which a bustling group of the British bourgeoisie gather to attend the last rites of a perfectly respectable and well-liked old gentleman who turns out to have had a secret life. That's where the dwarf comes in; he was in on the secret and thinks he has a right to some portion of the old boy's estate. He's also what the movie has for a villain, not so much for his monetary claim, but because he has some compromising evidence that threatens both...