Word: penguine
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...Brien and a few ’Poon affiliates masqueraded as security guards while a decoy in a penguin costume made a grand entrance into a Science Center hall where actor Burt Ward was displaying his Batman costume. According to Widmer’s version of the tale, the penguin unleashed the code words...
...venture into the living room produces a similar mixture of the ordinary and the extraordinary, with a depiction of what appears to be a large, awkward penguin standing opposite the TV; the bird in question is in fact a Great Auk, a majestic animal whose significance is grossly underrated by any confusion with a penguin. Its remarkably well-documented path to extinction is a point of great interest for Berry; history reveals that fishermen killed the last pair of Great Auk in 1844 on the island of Eldey off of Iceland. “It really is an icon...
Roger Lowenstein (Penguin Press; 339 pages...
...iBook application and its online store. There has been much talk of the iPad's dealing a death blow to Amazon's Kindle reader; publishers, it seems, have long yearned to escape from Amazon's tough control over pricing. I asked John Makinson, chairman and chief executive of Penguin, why he's so keen on the iPad. He told me he likes the fact that "it gives control back to us and allows us to discover how the market is developing. Frankly, when I saw the iPad, it was like an epiphany ... This has to be the future of publishing...
...There is also a gigantic stuffed white—gorilla, or something, we at FlyBy aren’t quite sure—that migrates around the library. Also, Quincy’s mascot, voted into existence only a few years ago, is the penguin...