Word: mammothly
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Since Buster Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. in 1924, Hollywood has often toyed with the looking-glass motif, though never on Hero's mammoth scale, where so many cars crash that the audience becomes rubberneckers. Schwarzenegger, a live- action cartoon in the flesh, and McTiernan, who made the brains explode on time in Die Hard, might seem just the team to send up the dizzy conventions of the action genre. At first they do so, smartly. A wounded cop mutters, "Two days to retirement," and promptly dies. And Arnold's version of Hamlet is even funnier than Mel Gibson...
Wednesday's game against Massachusetts at Soldiers Field also featured a mammoth Harvard comeback--eight runs in the final two innings, but once again the opposition won in the next inning on a Harvard miscue...
...assumption that humans arrived in the Americas about 11,500 years ago is known as the Clovis hypothesis. The name comes from the 1933 discovery of a fluted stone spearpoint dated to that era in a pile of mammoth bones near Clovis, New Mexico. Over the years, similar spearpoints were unearthed all over North America, all apparently about the same age. Because the weapons, known as "Clovis points," were so widespread, and because essentially no artifacts at all were found in older sediments, archaeologists and anthropologists concluded that the Clovis people were the first and that they came over from...
Discovered in 1975 by researchers with the Archaeological Survey of Canada, these caves in the remote northern Yukon have yielded flaked stone tools that are 10,000 to 13,000 years old, what appear to be butchered mammoth bones 15,500 to 20,000 years old and bone tools from perhaps 23,500 years ago. To date, however, the researchers have been unable to find any hearths or other cultural features...
...Arnold Schoenberg, Luigi Nono and Elliott Carter. His conducting career began as an adjunct to his composing at the Sibelius Academy, but it took off in 1983 when he stepped in for Michael Tilson Thomas on a week's notice to lead the London Philharmonia in Mahler's woolly mammoth, the Symphony No. 3 -- despite the fact that prior to the call he had never even looked at the score...