Word: python
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...future years that, if experience is any indication, will swell even beyond the huge costs already forecast. Says Colorado Democrat Gary Hart, a leader of the "military reformers" who support increased spending but tend to oppose systems that threaten to grow out of hand: "The Administration is like a python devouring a pig. It's just got the snout now, but when the whole pig is devoured, there will be a huge bulge...
...college. The atmosphere, more like camp than summer school, encourages cooperation, rather than competition, among students. There are no tests, and students work together to solve problems, instead of simply being taught the formula and proofs. In addition to the academics, alumni remember Hampshire for Frisbee, volleyball. Monty Python, juggling, 3 a.m. fire drills, and "vast silliness...
...alone discussed his denial. Perhaps it was Gaddafi's appearance that was so scary, as he huddled, dressed in collarless brown shirt and engulfed in a blue cape. As his head bobbed upward and backward, his eyes rolling up to the heavens, he looked like a Monty Python imitation of an Arab weirdo...
Since Kliban, it has been shown that cats are just as hilarious-and profitable-when they are dead. English-educated Simon Bond, 34, a bachelor who lives in Phoenix and London, was encouraged to publish 101 Uses for a Dead Cat by his friend Terry Jones, a Monty Python regular. Deceased felines in Bond's black humor pose as toast racks, pencil sharpeners and potholders. Although the book has sold 765,000 copies in the U.S., the mood is too indigo for some ailurophiles. Says A.S.P.C.A.'S John Kullberg: "Coming upon the book is akin to being...
Gilliam, the one American in the Python troupe, got his start in New York in the early 1960s as assistant editor of Harvey Kurtzman's humor magazine Help!, which specialized in live-action comic strips called fumettis (puffs of smoke). In Time Bandits, Gilliam is still the innovative graphic artist who brings strange worlds to extravagant life but cannot animate his actors. And he is still blowing smoke in the audience's face, literally and figuratively. Murk swirls through every setting with Bruegelesque squalor and Boschian doom; as a traveler on this time flight, the viewer is less...