Word: rhinoceroses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...running as the party's candidate: "Senator Bob Dole, the grand old rhinoceros of the G.O.P., is in his fury and in his wisdom a natural for the presidency, but by the time he assumed it, he would be 73 years of age." Depending on how you feel about rhinoceroses, that could have been an endorsement...
Ouch. Block that bloomless rose. But among subsequent columns was one in February titled "Let Dole Lead." Helprin recommended there that Dole, the wily legislative fox, drive Clinton bonkers with bills he would look bad vetoing. By this time the G.O.P.'s future was in danger and whether it was...
On page 1 of the book, Dahl kills off James' parents--they are devoured by a rhinoceros--and, soon after, the wicked Sponge and Spiker. The story then lurches picaresquely amid near catastrophes. Selick gives this all a bit more focus by making sure the early events, including the rhinoceros...
Patrick S. Chung's column appears on alternate Saturdays. Happy Holidays to the guests of the Ascot Rhinoceros.
John Cobuzzi, a technician at the CfA, helps to develop mirros for a NASA X-ray studying telescope. Nestled in a lab filled with imposing rhinoceros-sized equipment designed to measure iridium lenses, Cobuzzi says the best thing about the CfA is "the "people here, the living knowledge."