Word: lizards
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...offerings routinely presented to famous chefs by fans and job seekers. Except for two bites of chocolate someone made for her, De Laurentiis ate nothing from the many gift platters. In Mischel's terms, she has acquired "self-regulatory competence": she can cool the gluttonous impulses activated in our lizard brains when we see food...
...reality?”For several years, everyone acted as if a person named JT LeRoy existed; his publisher paid him, he gave book readings, and fans wrote letters to him. LeRoy told stories of his experiences as an abused child, running away from home, life as a lot lizard turning tricks with passing truck drivers, drug addiction, and HIV—rough, troubled authenticity. Then one day, poof, he disappears, leaving behind unsettling doubts—how much of our own reality depends on artificial, constructed truths?Our personal identity has been constructed for us. Immersed in media from...
...their "minders"), he is free to call them on their foibles. Perennial Democratic Presidential candidate Richard Gephardt is an earthling whose body has been taken over by aliens: "I keep expecting him to reach under his chin and peel back that immobile, monochromatic, oddly smooth face to reveal the lizard beneath." For Hertzberg, who was Jimmy Carter's chief speechwriter, Ronald Reagan's genius was to "paste a smiley-face on Armageddon's grinning skull." An American liberal, he combines the verve of Joe Klein with the precision of Michael Kinsley. Few in deadline journalism consistently display Hertzberg's grace...
...what to make of the other images on Cuteoverload.com? A tiny snail. A lizard curled up in the palm of someone's hand. Giant plush-toy versions of the e. coli and Gonnorhea viruses. And, genius though the concept may be, one suspects that Hallmark stores will not be featuring an aisle devoted to "cats'n' racks" - the site's term for the photo genre featuring felines nestled between breasts - any time soon...
With the title "chief lizard wrangler," she oversees the organization that developed Mozilla and the Firefox Web browser...