Word: guano
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...reasonable place to while away the afternoon hours. If a room is not in your budget, day use of the pool costs $4. And if you really feel like splashing out, or your feet need a little maintenance after a day of walking barefoot through temples littered with bat guano, a pedicure in the '50s vintage beauty salon goes for $3. Call (91-7686) 723-55 for reservations...
...museum's 2 million bats were messy but useful: they were credited with eating an estimated 17 tons of insects each night, helping reduce mosquito-borne malaria. So the government scrapped its plan to eradicate the bats. (Another factor was that the museum makes $250 a month selling bat guano.) A second, wooden ceiling, installed in 1995, failed to keep the excrement out of the gallery, so the New York City-based Wildlife Conservation Society is trying to raise $1 million to replace it with a concrete...
...great bronze lions in trafalgar square would be unrecognizable without their centuries-old coating of chalky, swirling, "Don't touch it dear" pigeon guano. But London Lord Mayor Ken Livingstone has declared war on the square's infamous winged residents. Livingstone's plan is to starve them, and after months of legal wrangles and, ultimately, a lucrative settlement, the city evicted Bernard Rayner, Trafalgar's sole bird-feed vendor, from the square. Trafalgar's pigeons are so tame they would eat from children's hands?if children were clever enough to avoid the watchful patrolmen. One group has: the Pigeon...
...Strangelove." Kubrick retained his services to turn the movie's source-material, a rather starkly serious novel, into the "nightmare comedy" that set the standard for black humor in the '60s. Southern's warped sensibility is stamped throughout the film - especially in sequences like the one where Col. "Bat" Guano ("if that is indeed your name") suspects Group Captain Mandrake of committing "preversions" in a phone booth. The other title invariably connected with Southern's name, "Easy Rider," demonstrates his mastery at delineating characters through dialogue - as in the memorable campfire scene where "straight" lawyer George Hanson (Jack Nicholson), conveys...