Word: lizard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Classy." Twenty years later, the Philippines are an odd melange of American, Spanish and Asian influence, all edged with a ferocity and fecundity that is uniquely Filipino. The crooning of a tuko lizard in the night forests of Cavite is counterpointed by the rattle of gunfire as a cigarette-smuggling speedboat runs a customs blockade offshore. The big beat of jukeboxes in Manila's waterfront dives does not quite drown out the clink of cocktail glasses at the opulent Army-Navy Club. Manila newspapers splash crime news in Hechtian hyperbole across their front pages...
...Alva. During her tenure as main dish at her mother's boarding house for railroad men, Natalie catches her breath occasionally to indicate that she is not long for this whirl. Meanwhile, Kate Reid plays Mama as a sleazy old bagful of Southern comforts who snaps like a lizard whenever Alva mentions striking out alone to taste the high life of Noo Awlyuns...
...great meadow." While she was working on the book, Barbara wrote to a friend: "I want that green, fairylike, woodsy, animal-filled, watery, luxuriant, butterfly-painted, moth-dotted, dragonfly-blotched, bird-filled, salamandrous, mossy, ferny, sunshiny, moonshiny, long-dayful, short-nightful land, on that fishy, froggy, tad-poley, shelly, lizard-filled lake-oh, no end of lovely things to say about that place, and I am mad to get there...
...egotist, he has inspired student dart boards on which his photograph is the bull's-eye. Arons' scathing answer to his student critics is that "they create certain myths to rationalize their own inadequacies." He seems proud of some mementos from his students in his cluttered office: a dead lizard, a hangman's noose...
Still, the turnover went more smoothly than anyone had hoped and, in a light mood, Australians did a little coining of their own. The 20 piece, which has Queen Elizabeth's profile on one side and a frilled-neck Australian lizard on the other, was nicknamed "the Twin Lizzie." The 100 piece, imprinted with the Australian lyrebird, was called "the fib." The 200 piece, which features a waterlogged-looking platypus, became "the Holt"-after Prime Minister Harold Holt, an avid beach enthusiast...