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Aristotle, says Terres, unaware of migration, thought birds hibernated in winter, while Ice landers believed that the whooper swan, after nesting, flew off to the moon. Closer at hand, songbirds poke crushed ants, rich in formic acid, into their coats to remove para sites; the common blue jay is obeyed by fleeing deer when he pipes his warnings; and the red-eyed vireo can give 22,000 encores a day of his song...
...understand why other schools need to poke fun at a school of education even though we're part of the same community." Deal says, adding that "I feel good about what I do, and it's every bit as vital and intellectually respectable as things others...
Dartmouth's senior goaltender Jim Jankowski, a caddy for superhero Bob Gaudet for most of his career, played in the finale and turned away 21 shots. The two he didn't get, a three-on-one poke by Jim Turner and a breakaway tally by Shayne Kukulowicz, ended the scoring in what has been a bittersweet campaign for the Crimson...
Several pages later, MacShane quotes O'Hara again: "Although I may often have felt like belting a woman, I have never actually taken a poke at one except in anger...
Tomlin and Wagner have no such grand ideas. They aim only to poke fun at the American houseperson's conspicuous consumption - a bizarrely anachronistic target in the '80s, when every Jane Doe scrutinizes her biodegradable cereal box to make sure it has enough vitamins and minerals. So the film's first half mines the comfy-cozy, utterly on-pitch humor of an old Carol Burnett skit. In the happy California suburb of Tasty Meadows, every room is decorated in the pastels of progressive kindergartens, and the residents' chief concern is ring around the collar. In this...