Word: elephantitis
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Mailer would probably get drunk and stampede through the proceedings like a crazed bull elephant, so Updike, who writes novels and poems that The New Yorker likes, is considered a better shot for the nod.
Guinness's performance is obviously based on a close reading of the sources. The habits are ticked off one by one, amid the slow disintegration of personality: the stiff, corseted movements, the crescendos of temper, the harsh, mesmeric voice grinding out its long postprandial diatribes against traitors, smokers and...
Saris. It was an art with no dark corners. The most extreme emotion that miniaturists normally allowed their figures was the decorative loneliness of palace ladies waiting for their lovers, as in the late 16th century Deccan painting of Girls in a Wood. Pattern is all: gold-spangled meadow and...
Ordinarily, I wouldn't complain so much about music so trivial. Even her back-up band, Elephant's Memory, is approximately infinitely better than the material deserves. I wouldn't mind that Ono can't include even two enjoyable sides of music in a four-sided album. I wouldn't...
When camp was pitched for any length of time, each P.O.W. was locked up in an 8-ft.-by-8-ft. cell constructed of green logs. The prisoners did not eat much worse than their captors: rice for every meal supplemented by the meat of anything that ran or crawled...