Word: dwarf
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...What a pop singer could look like. Physically not a heroic figure (his song-publishing company was called Dwarf Music), Dylan nonetheless had a compelling presence: the voluptuous lips nearly hidden by his harmonica holder, the untelling eyes under a brakeman's cap. He didn't have as much influence on performing styles as Mick Jagger - he was a static figure, while Jagger's stage-sprawling struts set the fashion for rock-band lead singers - but he notarized the dress-down look for pop performers...
...Sorrentino's inspiration is the Grimm tale of Rumpelstiltskin, the dwarf whose skill as a tailor (he could spin straw into gold) ensnared a greedy miller and his beautiful young daughter. Here the miller is a middle-class man over hid head in debts for the wedding of his daughter Rosalba (glamorous, poised Laura Chiatti). Geremia lends the family more money than they can afford to pay and then, on the wedding day, extracts from Rosalba his own predatory pound-of-flesh interest on the loan...
Following chants of "one more song" and "we want Ben" after Folds left the stage, the artist and his band returned for an encore, "One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces," parting with the words, "Kiss my ass, kiss my ass goodbye...
...harrassment. 11) Oh, I was prepared for a different type of oral… 12) I love the smell of napalm in the morning. 13) How much would it cost to bribe you? 14) Fuck you! I already have a banking job. 15) Is the proper term for a dwarf “midget” or “little person?...
...More than 200 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq since the start of the war in March 2003. But the thousands of Iraqis who have been kidnapped, usually for ransom, by bandits and gangs, dwarf that number. After news of her release filled the airwaves, the editor of the Christian Science Monitor, Richard Bergenheim, called for the release of all hostages in Iraq. "We hope this tide of opposition to criminal behavior will lead to the release of all other hostages as well," he said. "The Christian Science Monitor will not let these people be forgotten. The people of Iraq...