Word: dwarfing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Egyptian gods and goddesses, including Isis, Osiris, Horus and Anubis. Still others were placed in so-called anthropoid coffins--pottery sarcophagi with human faces--and a few were only wrapped in linen. Bracelets, amulets, statues of mourning ladies, pottery vessels and figurines of Bes, whom Hawass describes as "the dwarf god of pleasure and fun," were interred with the bodies...
...Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan to speak to alums and graduates. The two men have very different views of the economy. In his memoir, Reich imagined that a frank exchange would involve his assailing Greenspan as a "robber-baron pimp" and the central banker's calling him a "Bolshevik dwarf...
...Ewing scored ten points and grabbed 13 rebounds in a double-double effort in the Princeton upset, and led all regular contributors with an impressive 59.5 field-goal percentage on the season. He also dominated in shot blocking. His 47 rejections dwarf junior Damian Long's eight, the team's second-highest total. The total is also good for second on the school's all-time list...
...first soap opera to feature a dwarf as a regular character...
Much of her squeamishness stems from a fundamental--and misplaced--insecurity about her looks. When asked to play Cleopatra in 1987, Dench, only half-joking, called herself a "menopausal dwarf." "I'm not a face that people want to film," she insists. "I faced that very, very early on." Now Dench may have to face an even more frightening fact: the camera loves...