Word: python
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Well, Dewitt can assure you that, despite its frequency and general popularity, war is indeed hell. Not that Dewitt has actually fought in one, prefering as he does to follow the example of Monty Python's Sir Robin and bravely run away. Dewitt has, however, seen several years' worth of war films including the Reagan classic Hellcats Of The Navy, a must-see for devotees of our main man's foreign policy. Unfortunately, Hellcats is not playing anywhere around Boston this week, but there are several other worthwhile alternatives...
Another form of harrassment comes from people who think I can hand out free food. They employ a couple of tactics. The hip, let's-be-brothers approach is a favorite. "Hey dude, whyncha sneak me a coupla more goodies?" they wink, bodies contorted by the old Monty Python nudge-nudge routine. Say no more, say no more...
...priestess Salammbo danced to the seductive warbling of a flute, her long white dress slowly fell to the ground, and she stood naked before the sacred python. Taking the serpent in her arms, she "wound it round her waist, under her arms, between her knees . . . Salammbo gasped beneath this weight . . . her back bent, she felt she was dying; and with the tip of its tail it gently flicked her thigh...
Forget about taking that course in existentialism. Forget the entire philosophy department. Forget evolutionism and creationism, too. Don't even pay attention to Monty Python and his meaning of life...
Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer did not merely rise to this challenge. The new wing, named for its principal donor, Robert O. Anderson, former chairman of the board and CEO of Arco, has obliterated the old museum like the giant foot in Monty Python. What was once the museum's forecourt is now filled with a stepped facade some 300 feet long and, at its highest, 100 feet tall: a blind screen of yellow limestone, horizontal bands of green ceramic and patches of glass block, with a gargantuan rectangular entrance portal. The architects have so overdone their contextual homage to Hollywood Deco...