Word: elephantitis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
And he vanished in a puff of smoke. In his place sat a red stuffed elephant with a green bow tied around his neck. The hippie grinned.
"I just told you. I gave up toys. They're worthless," he snapped, gesturing at the elephant, whose trunk still clutched Lenny's tire chain. "It's kids like that that bug me--kids who never believed in me in the first place. That's how I got obliterated or...
"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?"
Cherry Jones as Irina delivers with sensitivity a difficult monologue about the pointlessness of life in general and of work in particular. And Thomas Derrah's Andrei is a compellingly unhappy cuckold and failure. It is hard to understand, though, why the servants have been directed to speak in distorted...
"It's as if we were 80% of our way through reading a book," says Chicago Meteorologist Walter Lyons. "We may have to read the last 20% just to make sure there's not a surprise ending." Lyons contends, along with some spokesmen for major U.S. utilities, that...