Word: python
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Zoos in the Harvard House resemble the food chain. They include birds, reptiles, mammals, fish and--of course-all the roaches these animals could possibly eat. One junior, Sara, now the owner of a python, had her own menagerie last year: seven lizards and two finches...
...Dining Hall: From Here to Eternity: Fri and Sat, 8, 10. Dunster House Dining Hall: Rebel Without a Cause: Fri and Sat, 8, 10; Sun, 8 only. Dunster Junior Common Room: Days and Nights in the Forest: Fri and Sat, 8, 10; Sun, 8 only. Science Center C: Monty Python's 'Meaning of Life...
There are several reasons, which interlock. One was the postwar baby boom, whose mass, having moved through the art schools like an antelope through a python, arrived in the art world at the end of the '70s. American art teaching swelled in the '60s and '70s. Every university had to have its art department, and that department had to be full. The National Association of Schools of Art and Design guesses that about 900 institutions offer fine-arts degree programs; its own 138 member schools had 45,000 students in the fall of 1982, of whom some 8,500 graduated...
Surprisingly, although the songs may have the tone of King Lear, Thompson's non-musical rapport with the audience leans much more to "Monty Python." The night I saw him, he was wearing an outfit that would have made most blush: a turquoise suit with an orange leopard-skin tie slung about his bare neck in something that looked more like a noose than a knot. He even poked fun at his own pessimism by saying. "If we've brought a little doom and gloom into your life, we'll consider it a job well done...
Within this intrepid travelogue lies the soul of Monty Python. The setting is the third largest island in the world, a fetid, fiercely overgrown jungle seething with carnivorous fauna and suspicious tribes. The protagonists are two British greenhorns with minimal survival skills. Poet James Fenton, 35, likes to spend his spare time reading the poems of Swift in a canoe. Narrator Redmond O'Hanlon, 37, is a literary naturalist who admits before embarking on the 1983 expedition, "The nearest I had ever come to a tropical rain-forest, after all, was in the Bodleian Library." Actually, he edges...