Word: pullyus
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What on earth is taking place? Over here, ten teenage kids in green tops and white miniskirts are jerking their heads into the air, then locking elbows, back to back, to form a herd of lurching pushmi-pullyus. Over there, a gang of pink-lipsticked, sunglassed young blonds, in matching scarlet outfits, have gathered in a circle around a giant radio and are joining together in a chorus of banshee wails. And all about, twirling, swirling, waving their hands in the air Al Jolson-style or vaulting on top of one another's shoulders are girls with turquoise streaks...
...PUSHMI-PULLYUS, according to Doctor Dolittle's faithful Chronologist Hugh Lofting, "are now extinct. That means, there aren't any more. But long ago, when Dr. Dolittle was alive, there were some of them still left in the deepest jungles of Africa; and even then they were very, very scarce. They had no tail, but a head at each end, and sharp horns on each head." Last week TIME's editors discovered that Lofting had been wrong in only one respect: the Pushmi-Pullyu is not extinct at all: it was revived in the form...
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