Word: lair
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tour of his children's pet collection. Before his wife Cindy can holler back--"Just don't show him the bedroom! It's a mess!"--McCain has swept past the wide-open door to their bedroom, where clothes are strewn across the floor and bed, into the lair of McCain's 13-year-old son Jack, where a 25-in. iguana is staring back from a glass case. "We've had him since he was this big," McCain says, holding his index fingers about 5 in. apart. Standing there, he remembers the question about New Hampshire. "I don't know...
...constitution that he had made to measure. But his vision these days is not of a Russian renaissance. Instead, he is a man obsessed with simple survival. As a frustrated member of parliament, Vladimir Semago, said after Saturday's impeachment vote, "He's like a bear protecting his lair--he's defending himself and his family...
...mysteries that, in the end, we must live with if we are to fully appreciate Tintin for who he is. Perhaps the enduring appeal of Tintin lies not only in the richness of his adventures, but in his psyche as well. Behind every hidden plan or smuggler's lair lurks a deeper secret, the secret of the self and its composition. Tintin holds the lantern out to us, and so we follow...
...Crisis, an eccentric scientist Calvin Webber (Christopher Walken) and his expectant wife (Sissy Spacek) decide to enter their fallout shelter for just a week or two. But an airplane crashes into their house above, they mistake its rumbles for a bomb, and they end up staying in the underground lair for 35 years. In 1997, Calvin and his wife decide they need to refuel on supplies and send Adam, their born-in-captivity son (Brendan Fraser), outside to bring home a non-mutant, Pasadena girl for breeding purposes. He meets Eve (Alicia Silverstone) and begs her to help...
Waller's neighbor, Joseph P. Weidle '99, lives in a less shocking but equally impressive version of the libido lair. Again, the bed is the centerpiece of the room, but here the pallet conjures up the aura of an Arabian harem. Paisley print canopies billow across the bed frame and ceiling, dimming the light to a romantic incandescence. Lava lamps rest mounted from the bed frame and a teddy bear reclines near the pillows while the ubiquitous mirror paneling covers the adjacent walls. "It's so comfortable, I can't get out of bed," Weidle comments...