Word: snakes
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Kennedy confidant and journalist Ben Bradlee has his initials tattooed on his right buttock, with a snake wrapped around them. You can read this little fact either as part of what book reviewers like to call a "wealth of historical detail" or as symptomatic of a fetishistic interest in the most insignificant minutiae of the presidency of John F. Kennedy. Either is fine, but decide now, because there's a lot more where that came from in Sally Bedell Smith's Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House (Random House; 608 pages...
...this being a Tarantino film, the conversations are as long and lurid and finely choreographed as the martial-arts set pieces. (The auteur is a bit of a diva himself: he loves arias, visual and verbal.) So you get a lecture on the toxic properties of the black mamba snake and a disquisition on the psychological duality of Superman...
...tomb would ensure a comfortable existence in the afterlife; unlike the tombs of most pharaohs, Tut's was not robbed, so many of these objects survived. Among those on display are Tut's crown, an ebony game board, an alabaster ointment vase, a painted wood figurine of a snake god with wings and a human head (pictured) and a statuette of an Egyptian deity, Ptah, made from gilded wood and faience. The museum is expecting half a million visitors; tickets can be ordered online at www.tutankhamun.ch...
...head of the snake has multiplied, and will continue to multiply,” he said, referring to the growth of autonomous terrorist cells throughout the world. Spain had been almost able to wipe out ETA, the Basque terrorist group which operates with the “hierarchal, pyramidal structure” of conventional terrorist organizations, Garzon said...
...Harvard’s leading scorer—with 14 goals and 19 assists—keeps dancing in front of the goal the way he has, he won’t be snake-bitten again any time soon...