Word: penguin
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...American theater, to speak in sunny, New Age banalities. And he knows that anyone familiar with his work probably wouldn't believe him, anyway. After all, he's the guy who wrote The Distance From Here, in which a teenager drowns a baby in a penguin pool; The Shape of Things, in which a student manipulates her boyfriend into changing his appearance and ditching his friends for a college art project; and The Mercy Seat, in which a man uses the 9/11 attacks as a cover to disappear with his mistress. LaBute refuses to judge any of his characters...
...grinned shyly as every song earned hearty appreciation. Towards the end of the set, Zammuto’s younger brother Mikey joined them on stage wearing a backwards baseball cap and shouting “Go Sox!” before a nimble tumble through “Classy Penguin,” a Mikey’s original composition. As Zammuto home videos were projected and the Books continued to play as a foursome, they made a warmly off-beat and decidedly twenty-first century musical family...
Contestants in the run-off election are the Stallion, the Puma, the Dragon, the Penguin, and the Bull Terrier “Astra,” Kirshner’s canine. Votes have not yet been counted but victory is still very up-in-the-air, says Marsh, who is coordinating the process...
...have an eidetic memory of when I first read Dangling Man, a faded Penguin edition with an orange spine. I was 14 years old, Chicago born (like Augie; his creator was actually born in Montreal and came to this country when he was 9 years old). It showed me that literature could be fabricated out of the material of common life--in my case, common Chicago life. Bellow's work, from first to last, is the biography of a place, a map of his own consciousness as it evolves against the backdrop of the bleak industrial city, with its stockyards...
Mitrokhin, who died last year, and his book collaborator Christopher Andrew, always promised a second volume. Andrew and Penguin, the publisher, have told Time the book will be published in September, but are tight-lipped about its contents. Perhaps they will include a fuller account of the activities of Symonds, who sometimes posed as a sports fan on his jaunts to Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Symonds, who served jail time for corruption but has never been charged with espionage, told Time his missions included obtaining false identities and acting as a "frightener" or standover...