Word: pigeon
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...best at Sunday night’s Academy Awards ceremony: “It just got a little easier out here for a pimp.” Yes, and that’s just what we need—for it to get just a little bit easier to pigeon-hole black performing artists into demeaning roles and to reward them for upholding the negative stereotypes that so many have spent years trying to break down...
...gentlemen are schooled in public speaking, networking, deportment, dancing and wine tasting. For the modern metrosexual there are lessons in dress sense, skin and hair care, and even new haircuts on offer. And during their leisure time the gentlemen have the chance to sample pursuits such as golf, clay-pigeon shooting and fly fishing...
...gentlemen are schooled in public speaking, networking, deportment, dancing and wine tasting. For the modern metrosexual there are lessons in dress sense, skin and hair care, and even new haircuts on offer. And during their leisure time the gentlemen have the chance to sample pursuits such as golf, clay-pigeon shooting and fly fishing. "It's really refreshed something," says Edward Cyster, 24, a water-skiing instructor from Fife. "It's reinstated the importance of good manners." He hopes the course will give him a professional boost and an edge with the ladies, especially the class in Indian head...
...their kitchens on a daily basis, since they're too busy empire building. But Santamaria, whose restaurant occupies the first floor of his family's ancestral home, takes an Old World pride in his place--while serving up slick modern dishes like calamari with pumpkin pure and pigeon in phyllo pastry sprinkled with confectioner's sugar...
...explosive devices. When the Marines are on patrol, insurgents take potshots and then hide before the Americans can shoot back. They test the troops by seeing how close they can drive to a patrol before the Marines open fire. Lately, troops say, insurgents have begun using a technique called pigeon flipping: while on patrol, the Marines have noticed flocks of pigeons circling above them, leading them to conclude that supporters of the insurgents have somehow trained the birds to signal when troops are in the area. "If it's a game of cat and mouse," says Corporal Richard Bass, "then...