Word: dwarf
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...Dwarf tossing should be legal once more, Dave the Dwarf believes. He’s suing to overturn Florida’s ban, which has been in place since...
...Schulz's "Peanuts" being the definition of a mainstream, co-opted comicstrip, it would seem that the cynical, iconoclastic comixcenti hold it as close to their hearts the rest of America. Could I have been wrong to dismiss Charlie Brown's 50 years of antics as a "crudely-drawn dwarf's repetitious bumblings?" As luck would have it a new book, "Peanuts: The Art of Charles M. Schulz," addresses just such doubts about the most popular comicstrip in the history of the world...
1997’s Whatever and Ever Amen still had much of the same angry-white boy rock and piano-boogie with songs like “One Angry Dwarf and Two Hundred Solemn Faces” and “Song for the Dumped.” But on their second album, the band began to delve more deeply into themes of loss and inability to cope with life which had only been hinted at in their first album. The more emotional side of the band soon started a chorus of comparisons to other piano rockers like Elton John...
...fall. "Peanuts: The Art of Charles Schulz" (Pantheon), a softcover edited by Chip Kidd that appears in October, reprints 500 of Schulz's cartoons along with sketchbooks and never-before-published material from his archives. Maybe this book will explain how the word "genius" applies to that crudely-drawn dwarf's repetitious bumblings...
...inner planets, including Earth, turning it into what astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson calls "a red-hot charred ember." The sun's red-giant phase will be brief, however. Shedding its heat and gases, it will become a cold, compact cadaver no bigger than Earth, a white dwarf lost in space...