Word: rhino
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...saying the High Mass or taking his shoes off. It's all whittled down this time, pressurized but not explosive as it is for his brother Tommy (Robert Duvall), who shouts, cusses, paces, insults waiters, kicks file cabinets, and prowls around the underside of DeNiro's archdiocese like a rhino. While his brother butts heads and creates scenes DeNiro is the man of greatness who always remains smooth, suave, and political. They are Iago and Othello, in a way. And, of course, DeNiro falls, but he falls with style. He never twists or shouts or disclaims. He won't flinch...
...called Yumaceras; fossils of one of these beasts were first uncovered in Colorado in the 1930s. Says Webb: "The bones add a great deal to our knowledge of this animal, which was heavy-footed and not unlike a moose." The diggers also found so many bones of the original rhino that they were able to assemble a virtually complete skeleton. It now proudly stands guard inside the entrance of the museum on the University of Florida campus...
...white students boycotted classes to protest the festival and set off three days of demonstrations, flag burnings and brawls. On the outskirts of the city, police fired tear gas and waded into crowds of demonstrators with dogs and sjamboks, quirts traditionally used by Afrikaner farmers and originally made of rhino hide. Soon more than 50 organizations with a total membership in the millions were formally boycotting the festivities. Declared an ad hoc committee formed to protest the celebrations: "The Republic Festival is window dressing to fool the world that all is fine in sunny South Africa." Snapped Black Leader Gatsha...
...President-who had never set eyes on the keen lawyer-and said he had found just the right man. Watt was razor smart, Laxalt told the President, a steely manager who knew his field. Best of all, Laxalt declared, Watt could take pressure: he had the hide of a rhino...
...that Ambrose Usher is modeled on Sir Isaiah Berlin, the high-wattage Oxford intellectual, government adviser and nonstop conversationalist. Sir Isaiah is 71. The ebullient Ambrose, of course, has the fictional hero's privilege of suspended birthdays. Or else cloak and mortarboard are more potent rejuvenators than powdered rhino horn. Only Alyss knows...