Word: rotundity
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...less than a million people. Take Serdar Denktash, the Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the Democrat Party in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Despite the fancy job titles, to most residents of the divided island he is far better known as the son of Rauf Denktash, the rotund septuagenarian President who has dominated Turkish Cypriot politics for nearly half a century. Rauf is still the most important Denktash on Cyprus, but the son may be rising. Serdar, 44, worked behind the scenes this spring to secure the opening of the heavily fortified "green line" that has split...
...friends like these,' she sighed,/ 'Who'd stay a while with me,/I'd sit them down on silken chairs/And serve them cakes and tea'"), but the illustrations are what seals the deal. Kirk, who majored in art at the Cleveland Institute of Art, paints Miss Spider's rotund little body and curlicue hair in bold, almost hallucinatory colors, with outsize eyes and eyelashes and her world in equally poppy hues--just garish and cutesy enough that children lap it up. And not only children. Miss Spider moved from moderately well known fictional character to pop-cultural boldface name when...
...drink about two cups a day - black, no sugar. It's not clear how much Too Much Coffee Man drinks, but it got him his name. Rotund in the middle, with meager limbs and a permanent case of the jitters, he resembles a superhero only by dressing in a unitard with "TMCM" on the front. The top of his head explodes up and out into the shape of a giant coffee cup. Originally a tossed-off doodle, Shannon Wheeler's character first appeared in the mid-nineties and has now encompasses both comix collections and a magazine inspired...
...constraining marriage. I was in the trenches for two years before my entire company was destroyed and temporary amnesia forced me to wander aimlessly through Europe searching for answers that never existed. It was here that I picked up smoking and mendacity. My only acquaintance was Lt. Slothrop, a rotund and oversexed Harvard alumnus who happened to be an AWOL American...
...sign prohibiting all eating, drinking and smoking sat next to an ashtray and atop a trash can that was overflowing with discarded burger wrappers, presumably from the gourmet restaurant upstairs. The rotund regulars happily munched on their fast food and drank their beer in preparation for a taxing evening of America’s most popular “lifetime” sport. It was Americana at its best...