Word: penguine
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...blame young writer-director Dean Murphy. He has a sunny knack for observing gossip ricochet around a country town, but he lacks the worldly insight and satirical snap of a Wilder. When Vince and Ralph are instructed how to walk the talk ("Marilyn Monroe crossed with a bit of penguin"), it's like watching out-takes from In & Out and The Birdcage; later, when Postlethwaite's pit-bull-faced inspector comes to town, it's a gay Green Card...
Starsky is fastidious to the point of compulsion and deeply paranoid. Hutch is so laid-back he's almost comatose, cool as a penguin holidaying on ice. In life they would be a screeching misalliance. In a more or less comic movie they are a match made in heaven. And it must be said that tense, tidy Ben Stiller and loose, louche Owen Wilson are perfectly cast in this movie version of the old TV series...
...What’s always exciting about it is to introduce a group of juniors who are working on their thesis,” HCL Curator of Manuscripts Leslie Morris said of the acquisition. “They may have read the Penguin edition of Boswell’s Life of [Samuel] Johnson, but to show the corrected proof of the book brings the process of creation and the history of literature much closer...
TILL DEATH DO US PART And now for something truly unusual in nature: monogamy. For the black vulture, the California mouse and the chinstrap penguin, this rare state of affairs--or lack of affairs--is in the best interests of both male and female. Monogamy may not be for everyone, but staying faithful is sometimes the shrewdest reproductive strategy...
...Australian soldiers who hated the obscurities of modernist poetry conspired to invent Malley, a working-class genius, and fabricate his verse. Then they hoodwinked the editors of an Australian literary journal--called Angry Penguins, no less--into publishing the poems and proclaiming him an unsung master along the lines of T.S. Eliot and Dylan Thomas. But even after the prank was exposed, the poems outfoxed the pranksters. In-tended as satire of 20th century verse, they were taken up by readers as exemplary modernist beauties. Today you can find them in the Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry, duly credited...