Word: lions
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SHARON STONE is not all that annoyed at the jokes about KOMO, the Komodo dragon that attacked her husband's foot June 9 during a trip to the Los Angeles Zoo (a visit she'd arranged with the help of her nanny's husband, a lion tamer). But she is a bit miffed that the zoo underestimated the lizard, and that it later made hay of her husband PHIL BRONSTEIN's misfortune. She aired her complaints in a postmortem on the incident with TIME's Jess Cagle. "The zookeeper said, 'Would you like to go in the cage...
...miraculous has become mundane. Nothing new there: it is in the nature of pop culture to allow the vagrant innovation, then stretch it into a trend by pounding it into a formula. In the Disney cartoon "renaissance," the excitement of the first ones, from The Little Mermaid to The Lion King, ultimately faded, whether the studio stuck to the master plan (as in the 1997 Hercules) or tried to stretch it (as in the new Atlantis the Lost Empire...
...intriguing. He's been all over the world and not to have seen it - you know how guys like things. I want to see bunnies, he wants to see dragons. So we found it through research, and through the help of one of our nannies, whose husband is a lion tamer...
...wrote that "one law for the Lion & Ox is oppression" was also a passionate democrat, a republican. His views as a workingman (which printers were) aligned him with the most radical tenets of English working-class thought. He was as much a traitor to Georgian belief as the execrated Tom Paine. He contemptuously referred to George III as "old Nobodaddy" and eagerly awaited his death. In an age when any utterance of disloyalty to the Crown could be and was severely punished, Blake was fearless in expressing his views. His sympathies flew to the weak and the downtrodden...
...slew of instrumental hits traded in wanderlust: "Lisbon Antigua" (by Raul Portela, Jose Galhardo and Amaduedo Vale, recorded by Nelson Riddle), "The Poor People of Paris" (Marguerite Monnot's "La Goualante De Pauvre Jean," covered by Les Baxter), "Never on Sunday (Manos Hadjidakis), "Petite Fleur" (composed by expatriate jazz lion Sidney Bechet and Fernand Bonifay, and a 1959 hit for Chris Barber...