Word: rhinocerosity
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The unfortunate "murder" of rhinos by orphaned elephants (and vice versa) is nothing new. The Roman naturalist Pliny observed that one of the great "antipathies of nature" exists between the rhinoceros and its natural enemy, the elephant. Pliny recounts how the rhinoceros sharpens its horn against a rock and charges...
Much like the Ecuadorian Amazon, the area of Burma across which the pipelines cut is biologically rich and home to many disenfranchised ethnic minority groups. The Tenasserim rain forest is the largest intact rain forest in southeast Asia, home to such endangered species as the white rhinoceros and the tiger...
...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...