Word: limerick
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...swollen human figure in it -- a failed behemoth, which he associated with the absurd and nasty king of Alfred Jarry's proto-Surrealist comedy, Ubu Roi. Add to that a dirty children's rhyme he remembered from his school days, which in English would have been a limerick; it concerned an elephant in Sumatra that tried to, well, connect with its grandmother. The naked woman in the foreground foreshadows the title of Ernst's great collage-narrative of 1929, La Femme 100 Tetes, or The Hundred- Headless Woman. She languidly beckons the dumb pachyderm to further erotic fiascoes...
...Ireland. Turning to the code, he concluded that WK meant white king, representing the police, that BQ (black queen) was the missing woman, and that BK (black king) was the suspect. Using these clues, Keene deduced that Theresa Terry must be buried in the Irish town of Limerick. His theory tallied with police discoveries that the suspect had hired a car and used credit cards in Ireland. But Keene could not interpret the letters HG, which he thought might stand for "her grave" or be reverse code for "grievous harm." More important, police have yet to find the body; they...
...past two weeks, Keene's readers have offered dozens of solutions. An Irish barrister suggested that HG referred to the Holy Ground public house in the St. John's area of Limerick, a desolate place ideally suited for the disposing of bodies. To complicate matters, William Hartston, the chess correspondent for the rival Independent, proposed that the map represented Continental Europe and that Terry's body had been thrown from a ferry in the Bay of Naples...
Polsky: "Just like all things in the world, Mike, my quotes have their time and place. One can't afford to be distracted by a Chaucer limerick or by a Byron verse when match point comes around. In a nutshell, Mike, let's leave those quotes for the tank...
Originally hailing from Limerick, Ireland, the Sullivans have lived for decades in Cambridge's Putnam Square, where the family's father initially owned a horse-and-wagon business. "The Sullivans are not a political dynasty--they are visible and respected, but they have not forgotten where they came from," Noonan says...