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...plays Lloyd's dead-pan Dorcester-accented sister-in-law (of the "coming down from Boston" clan). Her part is small but spicy: she repeatedly tells her kids to "shut up and celebrate Christmas" while contorting her face into strange fried-egg expressions. A funny mix of maternal and monstrous, Connie is able to balance delicately the separate but equal horrors that consume her life. Her character accurately reveals the modern female condition in all its glorious yet irritated state...
...Life and Casualty announced last Monday that first-quarter earnings would plunge $120 million -- in part because of claims related to January and February's weather. Industrywide, weather-related claims for these two months may total $825 million, on top of $1.75 billion in insured losses caused by the monstrous winter storm that battered 24 states in March a year ago and $19.5 billion in losses caused by Hurricanes Andrew and Iniki...
Show Business: With a monstrous portrayal, a star is born...
Just when it looked like the Crimson would forge a lead, however, Yale woke up from its late-game slumber to garner the win. Yale star Damon Franklin, who had been kept quiet most of the contest, stole a pass for an easy lay-up and then hit a monstrous 23-foot three point shot to ensure that Harvard would never regain the lead...
...issue of the Scottish Naturalist. The most likely explanation for the spate of sightings of the beast that began in 1868, says the study, is the presence in the lake of a school of sturgeon. Sturgeon can weigh up to 500 lbs.; their long snouts might be mistaken for monstrous necks, and their dorsal fins could appear to be humps...