Word: organ
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Marilyn Nissenson and Susan Jonas (Abrams; $34.95). As this work whimsically demonstrates, porkers are everywhere, from OvidUs verses to Miss Piggy's flirtations; from cartoons to medical labs, where cross-species organ transplants led scientists to observe, "Man is more nearly like the pig than the pig wants to admit...
...Virginia Spate (Rizzoli; $65). Paul Cezanne put down his fellow painter: "Monet is only an eye." Perhaps, but with that organ the great Impressionist analyzed the effects of sunlight on cathedrals and haystacks and water lilies -- and altered our perceptions forever. A scholarly appreciation reveals...
...alleged ex-girlfriend Gennifer Flowers was taken aback when a Stern reporter asked whether Clinton used a condom. When Today's Katie Couric opened the phone lines during a June appearance by Ross Perot, a Stern shill got through with a bogus question about the radio host's sexual organ...
...dead. "Good. I hate him.") What makes it palatable, however, is Stern's hyperbolic wit and a disarming undercurrent of self-deprecation. Stern, who is married and has two children, with a third on the way, often makes disparaging comments about his own looks and his undersized sexual organ. He may be radio's biggest egomaniac, but the insecure Long Island kid who had trouble getting girls is never far from the surface...
...female crickets are not the only creatures these songs attract. Researchers reporting in Science magazine say they have found a tiny fly of the Ormia genus that can home in on a singing male as quickly as any lovesick cricket. How do they do it? With a hearing organ that works remarkably like a cricket...