Word: horn
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...supporting character and decadent author Eli Cash (Owen Wilson) becomes a household name with the publication of his best-selling novel “Old Custer,” a fantastical piece of fiction that plays with the concept of Custer’s having actually survived Little Big Horn. Cash, or the “James Joyce of the West,” crests on his newfound celebrity to score drugs, female companionship and war paint...
...World Health Organization estimates more than 100 million women worldwide have been circumcised - that is, had part or all of their clitoris, labia or vulva cut out. The practice, now commonly called female genital mutilation (FGM), is most widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the Horn of Africa, where up to 98% of girls are circumcised, and in Islamic populations in the continent's west. It is also found in Christian countries like Ethiopia and Kenya...
...from the last two albums, and in many cases infuses them with a new vitality, though sometimes at the expense of the brooding dark atmospherics of the album takes. “The National Anthem” makes up most of what it loses in the disappearance of a horn section. The grinding drums and bass are anchored in what is ultimately recognizable as good old-fashioned rock-sensibility, despite the otherworldly wailings of whatever that new-fangled spooky sounding instrument Jonny Greenwood is playing these days. The song could never be straight-up however, and Thom Yorke?...
...savvy shopper could pick up that $34,000 ring at E.B. Horn without worrying about that pesky little $1,700 retail tax; a penny-pinching mom could buy a $25 Tickle-Me-Elmo and put away that $1.25 savings for a rainy...
...puppets. The English department might allow adapted, satirical theatrical works modeled after Shakespeare, East Asian Studies grad students might put on Noh plays, chemistry students could create intricate marionettes that caricature professors entirely in ball-and-stick model form— whatever mode of catharsis toots each departmental horn. I imagine a designated “satire week,” in which students from various departments present their lampoons to the cheers and jeers of Faculty, simultaneously bonding with their instructors and addressing the fundamental power asymmetry intrinsic in the teacher-student relationship...