Word: nosing
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...whimsical movie “Penelope,” title character Penelope Wilhern, played by Christina Ricci, seems to have it all. As the daughter of blue-blood aristocrats, she has money, charm, and a horde of suitors flocking to her door. Oh yeah, she also has a pig nose. “Penelope” is a modern-day fairy tale in an image-obsessed world that actually teaches girls to love themselves the way they are. Penelope is heir not only to the family fortune, but to the family curse, as well, doomed to sport a pig nose...
...Other Boleyn Girl, Natalie Portman, 26, and Scarlett Johansson, 23, play Anne and Mary Boleyn, one destined to be Henry VIII's second wife, the other his mistress. Penelope stars Christina Ricci, 28, in a contemporary fantasy about a girl who has a pig's snout for a nose because, as the family legend goes, a witch's curse had long ago fallen on her ancestors...
...superficial way she's been judged that, when she goes into a local pub, she wears a kerchief across the middle of her face, forcing her to drink a glass of beer with a straw. Caveny also has a slew of sow jokes to subject us to. "Bad nose job," notes Reese Witherspoon, who shows up at the bar (and was one of the film's producers). And when Penelope gorges on Ho-Hos, her mother asks, "Oh, now you're just going to make a pig of yourself?" Penelope: "No, that's already been done for me." Et cetera...
...ARCHAEOLOGY 150 million Age, in years, of a fossilized sea creature known as a pliosaur, discovered recently on the Arctic island chain of Svalbard, where at least 40 other fossils await excavation 15 Estimated size in meters (49 feet) of a pliosaur from nose to tail. Its jaws were large enough to chomp a small...
...Moreover, the USDA’s decision to include meat dating back to February 2006 in the recall is a recognition that the cruel practices existed for two years under an inspector’s nose. As Paul Shapiro, Senior Director of the Humane Society’s Factory Farming Campaign, told me, “The USDA inspector was there, this cruelty was overt, it was out in the open—why they didn’t catch it or stop it is mind-boggling...