Word: mallard
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...first glance, the Round Robin seems typically stuffy. Suits gather at the circular bar and the ambiance is, well, avian: mallard duck colors, dark, paneled wood and forest green walls. The place oozes elegant opulence, a throwback to the rich history of its home at the Willard Intercontinental Hotel, the "residence of presidents." A steady stream of mainstay figures in American history - Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bill Clinton, Aretha Franklin, Elizabeth Taylor and Barack Obama, to name a few - have tread the halls of the Willard and frequented the Round Robin...
...into a splashy dream world for a parade of marching umbrellas, refrigerators and giant dolls that is as grand as it is eerie. Rambunctious comedy? Mike Reiss and Xeth Feinberg's Queer Duck is at least as rude as Knocked Up and yards funnier, whether its titular same-sex mallard is waddling up to the bar to order "a slow comfortable screw up against the wall of a bus station in Passaic, New Jersey," or enduring a spot of gay-bashing in an episode (from the 3min. filmettes on which the feature is based) called "Ku Klux Klan and Ollie...
...approach, producing realistic, vibrantly colored, and detailed images. He found a strong following among a group of Americans, who keenly imitated his no-frills style.The show displays a selection of Ruskin’s own drawings and watercolors, the works of two British artists he admired—Joseph Mallard William Turner and William Henry Hunt—and those by Americans whom he influenced, including Charles Herbert Moore, Henry Roderick Newman, and Joseph Lindon Smith.Opening with a group of rocky landscapes, the exhibit is organized thematically from architectural studies to fruit and flower still lifes. Ruskin?...
...Nobel-Laureate” contest, and a new mini-opera entitled “Inertia Makes the World Go Round,” the ceremony found time to recognize past Ig Nobel celebrities. 2003 winner C.W. Moeliker, who documented the first scientifically recorded case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck, was on hand along with Lisa R. Danielson and William L. Sefanov who were married at the 2001 complexity-themed Ig Nobels. With annual traditions like the launching of paper airplanes constructed from science homework and ceremony programs, the Ig Nobels work to emphasize the lighter side of science...
...mean what can one say about infinity in a minute?” said Kees Moeliker, the keynote address speaker and a 2003 winner for his research documenting the first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard duck...