Word: elephantic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
In ancient China, an occasional penalty was "death by the thousand cuts," the slow slicing away of bits of the body. A 19th century French traveler described an excruciating method in India during the rule of the rajahs: "The culprit, bound hand and foot, is fastened by a long cord...
Aside from export setbacks-prices for copper and cobalt dropped sharply-much of the loan money that flowed in was not spent wisely. Among Mobutu's development projects was a huge undertaking to dam the Zaïre River and to build a 1,100-mile-long power line...
Sex! Horror! Humor! Fairground Art (Abbeville; 312 pages; $85) offers 1,100 illustrations (700 in glorious color) of European and American carnival equipment and advertising, many of which deserve an exclamation mark. Authors Geoff Weedon and Richard Ward provide a pictorial history of their eye-catching subject, from the primitive...
Browsing in tall grass, or showering his parched hide in a cool river, the elephant moves with unhurried majesty. But for how long? In Elephants (Abrams; 255 pages; $50) Photographer Reinhard Künkel notes that during the 1970s a tenfold increase in the price of ivory, from $6 to...
"Gee, that sounds like a real bummer." I said, giving the red elephant a poke with my tow. It had started to rain, and he looked a bit soggy. "What's going to happen to Lenny, there--uh, are you going to change him back?"