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...include in their burial tombs. Pieces like this sculpture portray animals of the real world. But, Mowry says, that “we wanted to show there are more animals than just horses.” Beyond these equestrian pieces are animals as diverse as the monkey, tiger, and snake. Animals of the fantasy world include the dragon and phoenix. In “Dragon amid Clouds,” a hanging scroll from the Choson dynasty of Korea in the nineteenth century, an orange and green dragon is offset by black and white clouds. The dragon, a celebrated animal...
...friend the Snake claims that this is not entirely true, based on the fact that he was once banned from the George Washington University campus for an entire year after being caught stealing a sign on camera. Watch out for Big Brother...
...second mouth that utters his deepest thoughts. "It's impossible?nnn?never make it out alive." While enduring the usual high school dramas - a pregnancy scare as he avoids her in the hallways - things get worse when she discovers she can shed her entire epidermis like a snake. So, outed at the school, she flees to the woods with Rob, who has disclosed his true feelings for her. Almost literally ensconced in a love nest, things go really bad when Rob vanishes and a dismembered arm appears...
...mode we meet a kaleidoscopic whirl of characters: scientist grandparents who invent an Inconsumable Taco to end Mexican hunger, man-eating apocalyptic coyotes, and Machiavellian politicians who hide microchips in sugar to read opponents’ minds over morning coffee. Christopher’s voice leaps in style from snake oil charlatan to coke addict to dyspeptic political pundit. A prenatal savant, he fires off puns and bawdy jokes with a facility alternately Shakespearean and sophomoric. While the narrator never loses steam—sentences regularly stretch over one hundred words—readers might occasionally wish he?...
...guess that would make you his mother, right, Toni?” Never mind their roles and the standards set by Demi Moore/Ashton Kutcher; Russo is too old for McConaughey, period. Although Pacino’s genuine performance and hilarious one-liners prevent the movie from hitting snake-eyes, the canned dialogue kills the shot at lucky sevens. The screenplay extends the constant betting metaphors way too far: when Toni says, “You played me, Walter. You were gambling with me that night, Walter, you were gambling with me,” no one watching will take...