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...squabble within the household of Ampliatus, one of Pompeii's plutocrats, which brings him into contact with Ampliatus' sexy daughter and leads him to the mystery of his predecessor's sudden disappearance. Harris has a field day with the debauched goings-on at Ampliatus'--the menu includes honeyed mice, parrot tongues, a sow's udder stuffed with kidneys (with the sow's vulva on the side) and a moray eel fattened on human flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blast from the Past | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

Your item on the $2 million birthday party that former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski threw for his wife [Nov. 10] asked, "$2 million and the best he could do was Jimmy Buffett?" But Parrot Heads (as Buffett's fans are known) the world over would insist that Kozlowski's choice of musician was probably the single best decision he made during his Tyco tenure! RICHARD D. BELISLE Severna Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 1, 2003 | 12/1/2003 | See Source »

...joke. The Pythons were rock 'n' roll. So writing a definitive, collective autobiography to set the record straight - just as the Beatles did in their Anthology - is no act of hubris. And for all those now-grownup kids who still beg them to re-form and do the dead-parrot sketch one more time, The Pythons Autobiography (Orion Books; 360 pages), serves up a hefty slab of nostalgia. Time is tougher on jokes than on melodies, but it's hard now to explain precisely why Monty Python's Flying Circus, which launched on Oct. 5, 1969 with a skit about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ministry of Silly Books | 9/21/2003 | See Source »

Hoping to attain the same kind of affection from the parrot, he grabbed some seeds to feed the bird...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dalai Lama Delights Crowd | 9/16/2003 | See Source »

...parrot took very aggressively, and when I tried to touch, [he began] biting,” he explained. So the 10-year-old Dalai Lama took a small stick and hit the bird, he said, and the prospect of friendship between the Dalai Lama and the parrot was over...

Author: By J. hale Russell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dalai Lama Delights Crowd | 9/16/2003 | See Source »

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