Word: pachyderms
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...attitudes are one thing, results another. Generally, the constructions are the flimsiest area of Wiley's art. His watercolors and oils are a different matter. The White Rhino Injured, 1966, is a marvel of surrealist compression: the unfortunate pachyderm's skin is reduced to several turns of gray, wrinkled hosepipe surrounding a block of white meat from which pink blood flows; it is a funky but hauntingly succinct image of vulnerability. "I'm a maze of information about reflections mirrored in opposites," begins the caption to his punningly titled Wizdumb Bridge, 1969, and the declaration fits...
...ever, peppered away during the first ten rounds with his rat-a-tat-tat left jabs and a supposedly merciful "new" punch he calls the "linger on," a light chopping right designed to daze but not drop a lesser opponent. Mathis, surprisingly agile for a big man, suggested a pachyderm on pointe, dancing, dipping and doing no damage whatsoever. In the final two rounds, Ali decked Mathis four times-twice with punches that were little more than taps...
Highlights of the demonstration were a six-foot tall, female Indian elephant--variously referred to as "Popsie," "Pachyderm," and "Hey You"--and a march down Massachusetts Avenue that succeeded in interrupting the flow of traffic not even long enough for the folks at Krackerjacks to mount their spray-sloganed, aluminum antitrashing barriers...
...raffish grandmother whose hobby is robbing banks. The film, currently in production, is called Bunny O'Hare, in which Miss Davis rides a getaway motorbike with Ernest Borgnine. Catherine Deneuve's pretty light looked for a while as though it might go out permanently under bushels of pachyderm. Tiny, flame-haired and frail in black chiffon, she stretched out on the Cirque d'Hiver tanbark and lay there, while a large male elephant stepped carefully over her and carefully lowered himself. Nobody breathed. But the elephant knew when to stop...
Pirouetting Pachyderm. No one, including Tony, is quite sure how he does it. There are two basic styles of goaltending: the stand-up and the flipflop. Esposito excels at neither. Instead, he patrols the net in a fashion that might be described as roam around, fall down and scramble. "Unorthodox but effective" is how Black Hawk Coach Billy Reay tactfully describes it. Against Boston last week, the pudgy, heavily padded Esposito whirled around the goal like a pirouetting pachyderm, deflecting shots with his elbows, knees and shoulders. Occasionally he even used his stick as Chicago won 6-3 and moved...