Word: elephantitis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lord knows, the Italian-made 1931 Bugatti Royale is not for everybody. The dancing-elephant hood ornament is a tad gaudy. The maximum speed of 70 m.p.h. would hardly satisfy Porsche fans. Parking the 19-ft. monster is a nightmare. And just try replacing the hubcaps on a car that...
Harvard wide receiver Brian Barringer, who needs 10 grabs in Saturday's Harvard-Yale showdown to become the Crimson's all-time single-season receiving leader, would need to stand on a volcano to be a six-footer. He'd need to be riding Bertha the Elephant to weigh 185...
The Journal has long been a newspaper with a split personality -- editorials written by "true believers" and the news reported by true skeptics. The man charged with reconciling these contrary forces doesn't believe in doing so. He is Warren H. Phillips, chairman and chief executive of the parent Dow...
Slow dissolve. Cosby has just celebrated a notable birthday, prompting new thoughts -- and a new medium -- for America's most famous father. "I recently turned fifty," he writes at the outset of his book Time Flies, "which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for...
But Jackson the singer can get bushwhacked by Jackson the persona, who is a ; dangerous highwayman. The Man in the Mirror most people will see is not the conscience-racked singer ("I'm starting with the man in the mirror/ I'm asking him to change his ways . . ./ If you...