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...want my undulating undies with the marabou frills. I want my beautiful bolero with the porcupine quills. I want my purple nylon girdle with the orange-blossom buds, 'Cause I'm going, do-mi-do-ing, in my do-mi-do duds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Seuss on First | 3/2/2004 | See Source »

...abstracted mode that I trailed a Tony Rizzo "Trophy Tail" - consisting of "pulsating spinner, breathing marabou, and life-like squid tail," altogether a hideously succulent mouthful of black rubber glinting here and there with sequins and harboring a cluster of deadly and barely noticeable hooks - across central Ontario's Elephant Lake yesterday, running the boat at that rapid trolling speed that gives muskies an appetite and the impulse to lunge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reeling in the Big Ones on Elephant Lake | 8/23/2001 | See Source »

...lunatic relations and dressing up like the queen. This set the stage for his mod-chic and poofy youth, during which period he had time and opportunity to establish his signature punkcore and camp aesthetic. It was clear he would never sell insurance. Although, give him a window, some marabou and froufrou, and he could probably sell it by the box. Give him stuffed cats, trash cans, smashed televisions, 15,000 Q-tips, and he could become the other big tourist attraction of New York City. Which...

Author: By Phua MEI Pin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Doonan & the Ladies | 1/8/1999 | See Source »

...Tony dressed in drag, her mother Janet Leigh got it in a shower, and her kid sister JAMIE LEE was dragged by a helicopter; but none was ever raped by a big stork. "I think I'm the only actress ever to have been violated by a marabou," Curtis says proudly. That act behind her (in straight-to-video, The Devil's Daughter), Curtis plays a forensics expert on UPN's new series The Sentinel. Being a Curtis has its downside: "If I compared my career to theirs, I'd be dead." But some things are passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 25, 1996 | 3/25/1996 | See Source »

...floe. But the easy, intelligent prose of Authors Les Line, Kimball L. Garrett and Kenn Kaufman allows the real creatures -- from the lava heron of the Galapagos to the bald eagle -- to emerge from the metaphors in full dimension. Not all the faces are pretty. The fierce marabou stork of Africa needs 2 lbs. of meat a day, and often finds it in the carrion left by lions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Shelf of Holiday Treats and Treasures | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

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