Word: lizardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Martin is a walking advertisement for his three western-wear boutiques-a sartorial taste acquired from that small-town Oklahoman, Mantle. Off duty, the manager sports hand-tooled lizard boots and wide-brimmed hats, making him the unlikeliest bandy-legged urban cowboy of them all. He lives quietly with a woman friend in an East Bay apartment. Nowadays, he spends less time in bars-and less time in fights. Martin has had his share of them. Outside a bar with one of his own players (Twins' Pitcher Dave Boswell, 1969), in a bar with a Reno sportswriter...
...trumpeters. In many cases, the differences between them and everyone else (including the salary differential) tend to fade, like the colors of a chameleon, after a few years in the corporate world. Others, however, seem permanently tinted, chameleons that have mysteriously evolved into some slightly more agile species of lizard. Robert Almon, for example, wears the predictable colors: pink Oxfordcloth shirt, blue-and maroon-striped necktie, gray suit, black loafers as polished as medieval armor. One of six children of a Rhode Island family (his younger brother plays shortstop for the Chicago White Sox), Almon majored in psychology and literature...
...will again for a long time. Then, now, all the migratory birds are coming through and there are ten pairs of mocking birds nested here on the place. I play Back on the phonograph to one and he learns it very well. We have a pure black lizard at the pool and I have learned to whistle to him soundlessly so that he comes to me any time I call him. . . . I learned it from someone else. You whistle without making any sound but the lizard hears it perfectly and it is evidently a password...
...sound effects are also something of a wonder, and Soundman Ben Burtt has conjured up noises never before heard on earth. To find a voice for Chewbacca, reports TIME Correspondent James Willwerth, Burtt combined bears growling, a walrus grunting, a seal barking, a tiger roaring and a lizard-a big lizard-hissing. The result, as anybody who has ever traveled to the planet Kashyyyk knows, is pure Wookie. For Darth Vader, Lucas wanted a sinister sound. Burtt put a tiny microphone inside a scuba tank regulator and found what Lucas wanted: the sound of labored, but mechanical breathing. "The biggest...
Last week the London office of Jonathan Cape, publishers, received an urgent cable: PLEASE CONFIRM HARE OFF THE LIZARD IN CORNWALL, ENGLAND, AT LATITUDE 50 DEGREES NORTH, LONGITUDE 5 DEGREES WEST...