Word: flamingos
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...dead alumnus John Updike’s Rabbit, Run series. On top of the bookcases stood a collection of knick-knacks that included an empty bottle of Maker’s Mark—a FlyBy favorite—a bottle of peroxide, a pink Flamingo, and the Improper Bostonian’s 2008 award for “the party you weren’t invited...
...would be too easy to say that the Las Vegas culture slipped out of the city and ended up at the lower tip of Manhattan. But, gambling on Wall St. predates the day in 1946 when Bugsy Siegel opened the Flamingo Hotel...
...house where her father sneers angrily in her direction. However, the scenes quickly move to the vibrant town of Tiburon, S.C., where the Boatwright sisters live their “secret lives” apart from the town’s racist whites. Steered to the sisters’ flamingo-pink house by a card her mother left behind, Lily and Rosaleen end up on the porch of the infamous beekeeping Boatwrights, played by Latifah, Keys, and Sophie Okonedo. The three sisters are independent, intelligent, caring black women who live a fairy-tale existence; they own their own house, their...
Some churches' sites, like that of Flamingo Road Church in Cooper City, Fla., receive regular traffic year-round. Others, like the one from Impact Community Church in Elk Grove, Calif., draw visitors with specific sermon topics. Barry Smith, senior pastor at Impact, started an online confession board last spring to enhance his four-week sermon series on the theme of secrets. The idea, says Smith, "was not so much theological as psychological"--a way to aid people carrying the shame of long-held secrets. For at least two of his congregants, the effort was transformative. A former prison guard...
...ceremony—hosted by the scientific humor magazine “Annals of Improbable Research”—bestowed awards in 10 different categories of original research, from nutrition to archaeology. In past years, researchers have been awarded Ig Nobels for the iconic pink yard flamingo and for calculating the exact odds Mikhail Gorbachev is the anti-Christ. This year, the event continued its tradition of zany humor. The ceremony opened with an introduction by past winner Dan Meyer, who promptly swallowed a sword onstage. Meyer won his Ig Nobel for studying sword swallowing and its effects...