Word: emu
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...team is hot. If your juniors and seniors want a comparison think back to the days when screams of "WADE-LAU-WADE-LAU" echoed through Bright. Then consider Joe Carrabino's personal cheering section. Even in the midst of a catatonic crowd at Brown this weekend cries of "The Emu! The Emu! punctuated the Harvard rooting...
...most enjoyable moments of his daily routine are spent in the park, making faces and sharing candy with the kids. But marriage, or even living with someone, is out of the question for someone of Buddy's elaborate tastes. And so when he learns about the emu (that's a bird) he figures his problems are solved. The emu's claim to fame, as Buddy learns when he tags along on an elementary school nature walk, is that the male hatches and raises the chicks. A surrogate mother of sorts...
Turn to page 92, if you have dreamed of an emu. There, all is made clear by Authors Robinson and Corbett: "This strange animal in a dream represents a well-meaning friend who is, nevertheless, giving you stupid advice. Don't be influenced...
...turn molten in the Popsicle-or-ange sunrise. This is the time of day a kangaroo likes to lick the dew off the steel track. Or when a yellow-eyed dingo, Australia's coyote, will stand its ground and stare sourly at the train while a spindly-legged emu, the local version of an ostrich, will try to outrun the 3,300-h.p. diesel express...
...presence of a female acquired especially for him. Instead, he saves all the normal male shoebill signs of affection- lowered head, lively clapping of the wooden-shoe-shaped bill, peculiar gulping noises -for his caretaker. Sometimes animal passions become actively embarrassing; recently, while a repairman was crouching in an emu's enclosure, the huge, ostrichlike Australian bird decided that the intruder was a female emu and behaved accordingly. At times the sexual play verges on the pathetic. "We have seen instances," says Hediger, who is also a professor of animal psychology and biology at Zurich University, "where tortoises have...