Word: mule
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jungle's web page (www.jimrome.com). Perhaps the best thing about the web page is sound clips. If you have real audio you can download some of the calls and listen to the Clones. If you are there, make sure to check out Rex Hudler talking about his "Mule Boy," there are not many things funnier...
...bloody history. It first belonged to the nephew and heir of Atahualpa, the Incan King whom the Spanish conquistadores garroted in 1533. Tupac Amaru (which means "Royal Serpent" in Quechua) resisted his uncle's executioners for years, but was finally captured in 1572, whereupon he was paraded on a mule through the streets of Cuzco and beheaded with a cutlass. Two centuries later, his name was appropriated by another Incan rebel who, after his own arrest, was torn apart by four horses in Cuzco...
...pair often spend months at a time traveling through remote regions by car, mule or camel, with no means of communication with the outside world. In order to gain the trust of wary tribes, Beckwith and Fisher may live with the locals for weeks or even months, befriending the chief and integrating themselves as much as possible into daily life. The women usually work through a translator--sometimes two, in the case of especially rare dialects. Being female has made it easier to gain access to rites that outsiders rarely witness. Notes Fisher: "We're less threatening to the women...
Elizabeth Dole's face was ready to shatter. She was sitting next to her husband while he argued with Katie Couric about smoking--and then argued some more, and some more. "I'm not certain whether it's addictive," Bob Dole insisted, like a mule-stubborn father who won't concede that his smart-aleck daughter is right. Why did Dole dig in so hard on the losing side of the smoking debate? He went through hell to quit the habit, and he used to get into fights with his first wife about her chain-smoking. He even lost...
LARGER THAN LIFE (July 19). Bill Murray, who looks great as the villain in Kingpin, here goes on a cross-country trek with an elephant. Murray's a terrific comic actor, but really, road movies are the pits unless it's the late '60s, the elephant is a mule, and Jack Nicholson is along for the ride...