Word: rabbit
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...Beloved won with 15 votes; DeLillo's Underworld got the silver medal with 11. Also among the top vote-getters was Philip Roth's American Pastoral (7 votes), Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian (8 votes) and John Updike's Rabbit quadrilogy (also 8 votes, from judges using the term "novel" with gymnastic flexibility.) You are hereby saved the trouble of reading all those other, lesser works from the past 25 years - that's service journalism! I just wish they'd done it American Idol style, with Morrison et al. reading a chapter a week on live television and Michiko Kakutani...
...after all those tense years of saying he doesn't want to move the goalposts or go down rabbit holes or speculate, McClellan's last few colloquies have been good-natured and rowdy. At one point last week, asked to comment on such matters as why the President was commemorating Cinco de Mayo on May 4, McClellan joked that things were getting a little out of hand. "The end is near," someone said down front. But McClellan saw it differently. "No," he replied mischievously, "the beginning...
...Only one person in the retreat's four-year history has ever quit. And the yoga is wonderful, a dynamic mix of ashtanga and hatha techniques, taught with exquisite clarity by the retreat's regular instructor, Wendy Wardell. The grub's not half bad, either. Meals might be a rabbit's fantasy of haute cuisine, but Henry Cumming, a top-flight chef from Britain, knows how to coax out the inner bunny. Plus it's not all salad. There's hummus and guacamole and soups - gazpacho and an unctuous white cream of almonds and garlic. The menu is vegan, barring...
...meat tastes like rabbit. Like dried baby goat. Or perhaps?I know!?like veal." PRINCE HENRIK of DENMARK, husband of Queen Margrethe II, describing one of his favorite foods to Danish magazine...
...each.The first few scenes of the play are performed in front of a closed curtain by paper figures in a small toy theater as the endearingly cheeky Cheshire Cat (Rowan W. Dorin ’07) narrates. The live performance begins when the paper Alice tumbles down the rabbit hole in the toy stage, and the actual Alice (Sara L. Bartel ’06) stumbles out of the bottom of the figure stand.Bartel gives an admirable performance in the title role. She emphasizes Alice’s wide-eyed wonder and befuddled consternation, but rarely veers into overstatement despite...