Word: snowman
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...living with Berenika. She has a ton of energy and is always up for anything.” For example, Lygizos says, “Yesterday she was like ‘OK, we have to go play in the snow,’ and we built a snowman...
...words on the snowman in the eastern Tyrol skiing resort of Steinplatte read "Snow guaranteed from end of November to end of Easter". Fears that global warming is melting away Alpine ski slopes are adding to an unusually Grinchy state of mind in Austria...
...brain cancer; in Los Angeles. He pioneered the use of re-enactments that appeared to be shot by on-the-scene news crews in such films as his 1971 Emmy winner They've Killed President Lincoln. His 1974 Monsters! Mysteries or Myths?, about the Loch Ness monster, the Abominable Snowman and Bigfoot, is the highest-rated documentary in TV history...
Even if the outlines of her story are familiar, what we look for from Atwood is intricate characterization, a fully imagined alternative universe and an original turn of mind. There's not much of that in the story told by Snowman, formerly Jimmy, a survivor of the global calamity who now lives in a tree, attended by the Children of Crake. This is a mild-mannered tribe of bioengineered humans, more or less, if you don't count the phosphorescent skin (amazing what you can do with jellyfish genes) and the simian sexual practices...
...Snowman rewinds his life, we learn that much of this strange turn of events is traceable to Crake, a boyhood friend who becomes a serenely brilliant geneticist at a powerful bioengineering firm. His job is to find a formula for immortality. But Crake has larger plans. He thinks of the human race as a boundless opportunity for creative meddling. Oryx is an Asian girl whom Jimmy first glimpses on a child-porn website, then meets years later through Crake...