Word: mammothly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that reads like the pracis for a Dostoyevsky tale: "Girls are just utterly out of my reach. They won't even let me draw them." He became a cult sensation--and got lots of girls--by drawing them as monuments to his awe and fear of women. They are mammoth fertility totems; they dare the cringing Crumb cartoon male to deify or defile them. In his work Crumb does both, which has earned him no end of scorn from people with protective sensibilities...
...hunter-gatherers with a fairly developed technology. They wore animal-skin clothing and moccasins tailored with bone needles, and made beautiful (and highly efficient) laurel-leaf-shaped flint blades. Living in small groups, they constructed tents from skins, and huts from branches and (in what is now Eastern Europe) mammoth bones...
...boomlet of sorts was already visible. Kobe's streets filled with men wearing hard hats and the distinctive uniforms of Japan's leading construction firms. Mammoth earthmovers and jackhammers chipped away at the wreckage of collapsed buildings, while welders fused support bars to cracked and buckled overpasses. Workers were clearing rubble and forging new routes around it. Akio Himeji, an executive of the Yoshida Gumi, a marine- construction company, supervised a pumping operation at the docks to provide emergency water supplies. ``I think,'' he says, ``the next few years will be like the postwar recovery. Our company grew...
...this church, there are many cardinals. At one edge is San Francisco's J. Paul Emerson, a mammoth fist-pounder who doesn't mind saying he hates "the Japs." Toward the middle is syndicated host Michael Reagan, son of the former President; he and Limbaugh are the only persons made honorary members of the 104th Congress. Perhaps Reagan's most rebellious moment was when, he says, "I took on Nancy," by opposing his stepmother and supporting Oliver North for a Senate seat...
...Robbins' mammoth feet require size 16EE shoes...