Word: parrots
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...scene, Kyle J. Dancewicz ’11, who plays the shapely-legged Kim Bustible the Phoenix, has to resuscitate Hugh Bris with the restorative power of her tears. Unfortunately, the subtext was that Kim Bustible was actually a parrot masquerading as a phoenix...
...discovering her own sexuality for the first time, Lark is completely devoted to Termite’s care. She decides not to go to college so that she can stay and be “Termite’s mother, one of them.” Termite can only parrot words, not speak them, and has never cried, but his section of the book’s narration is imbued with an otherworldly clairvoyance.The most interesting perspective is that of Lark and Termite’s aunt, Nonie, who has effectively raised them. Nonie has taken pains to cover over...
Move over Marley, looks like you’ve been dogged by a parrot. While John Grogan’s “Marley & Me” may have been the cannon’s former standard, Irene Pepperberg’s recently published book “Alex & Me” has taken the ode to animal affection to a new level. Pepperberg, a professor of psychology at Brandeis and part-time lecturer at Harvard, recounts the story of her relationship with Alex, a grey parrot that was the subject of her research for the past 30 years. Although...
...Joint Chiefs have been systematically emasculated by Rumsfeld. You should not be the parrot on the secretary's shoulder." - What Bob Woodward reports Jones told fellow Marine General Peter Pace in 2005 before Pace became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (in Woodward's book, State of Denial...
...Velasquez, director of development for the Humane Society, said a pet-friendly shelter opened this year, sparing many animals the fate of those left behind following Katrina. In addition to the usual assortment of dogs and cats among the 44 animals being sheltered tonight, there are also rabbits, a parrot and a Gray-Banded King snake...