Word: elephantitis
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Serendipity may prove the best guide, for much of the pleasure of Expo 86 can be found in less expected places and in the more unsophisticated exhibits. The Thai pavilion, for example, contains the throne, 150 years old and encrusted with gold leaf, on which the Siamese King rode his...
Whoever said dead men tell no tales did not account for Ernest Hemingway. Since he was buried in 1961, ten books have been published with his name on them. They include memoirs, letters, sketches and two novels, Islands in the Stream and now The Garden of Eden, a kinky love...
In the summer of 1976, Judkins, then a 19-year-old New Hampshire boy attending Haverford College, signed on as a cook with a circus bound for broke. Cooking led to a truck-driving job, then magician, then fire-eater ("It's just basic common sense. Heat rises. Keep the...
AMONG THE INTERESTING disease tables, the perennial favorites, the Tourette's Table and the Incontinent Table, will be matched only by the stilted, jerky rapport of the Narcolepsy Table for pure comic potential. Most fascinating of all will be the fiery spectacle of the Spontaneous Combustion Table. And for those...
< That's nowhere near the half of it. We haven't mentioned the cockroaches that crawl out of a wound in Harry's chest, the sardines that drop from between the legs of his philandering wife, the elephant that sits on his car -- or the wild cinematic verve that alchemizes...