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Anguilla's small reputation (most people who have heard of it know only that "small" is the adjective, and persist in referring to it as "Iguana") results mainly from a full-page ad inserted in the New York Times of Aug. 14. "Is it 'silly' that Anguilla does not want to become a nation of bus boys?" the ad asked plaintively. The Times had only a week earlier described Anguilla's declaration of independence as "touching and silly...
...Michael, 8, on The Great Slaughter, a treatise on man's inhumanity to beast. Young Bobby already knows most of the basics about wildlife just from watching his own private animal kingdom at home in Mc-Lean, Va., where he tenderly harbors a scaly tegu named Thor, an iguana, two hawks, six chickens, two geese, six golden pheasants and assorted turtles and frogs, to say nothing of the family's five dogs and four horses. He used to have a fierce, 31-ft. Oriental dragon. "But the dragon ate the chameleons, and then one day he was eaten...
...last thing iguana do is make anemone by speaking with too much condor or sound as if I'm yakking or harpying about trivia, but still llama bit put out at your aukward article about the Ghana fitchewation. Every minotaur language seems to be losing whatever lynx remain with the deer old English we once gnu and loved. It used to comfort ocelot to pick up TIME and read straight-forward copy without being exposed to the whims of devilfish writers. And, alas, even TIME is now tapiring off in a manner that has us aphid linguiphiles so worked...
MIDDLESEX, N.J., Foothill Playhouse: The Night of the Iguana is spent in the heart of the Mexican jungle-and of the human condition-by a typically tormented Tennessee Williams quartet. The intensity of the drama is more focused and frightening in its original stage form than in last year's screen version...
...Sportsman John S. Day, 55, uses his cheetah, Mike, for hunting and exercise. Exotic animals can be habit-forming. Jeri Hines, a Los Angeles divorcee with three children, bought a boa constrictor a couple of years ago. Since then, she has acquired an alligator, an aquatic toad, a green iguana and a tire eel, and has had to move to a new district because none of her neighbors would let their children into her house...