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...almost perfect specimen of the genus 'peach,'" says dashing reprobate Rowley Flint (Sean Penn) to the truly peachy Mary Pantin (Kristin Scott Thomas) in this stilted version of a Somerset Maugham trifle about the moneyed class inconvenienced by lust and Fascism in 1938 Florence. It's the sort of stiff-upper-Brit badinage that one may think one is nostalgic for, until one hears it played straight in a film with no glamour (the cinematography makes everyone look blotchy), urgency or sense. Really, my pet, it's all just too terribly terribly...terrible...
Because of the dino's size (only 3 ft. from its nose to the tip of its spindly tail), the Linsters called it Bambi, a name now formalized as Bambiraptor feinbergi, with a bow to the family that bought the specimen for the museum. But there is nothing deerlike about it. A kin of the ferocious velociraptors of Jurassic Park fame and more distantly of mighty T. rex, Bambi is a type of dromeosaur, small, upright-walking meat eaters that lived during the late Cretaceous period...
...Throughout history, there has never been more a fearless, generous, resilient, talented, intelligent and beautiful specimen of humanity than the black woman," McClelland said. "Sadly, many black women have gone unnoticed and unappreciated...
...basis. But as we went through some procedural stuff, I caught a glimpse of a tray of fresh samples oscillating wildly and shaking up their contents in the lab behind her. I chuckled nervously. The Beastie Boys played in the background as one of the lab assistants inspected a specimen under a microscope...
...clear about this one thing: Not just any specimen that lands on that oscillating tray makes the grade. The Monty Python song notwithstanding, every sperm is not, in fact, sacred; each specimen is checked for sperm count, diseases and the like. Furthermore, as with any commodity in a free market, some sperm are more equal than others. To that elitist end, each donor must fill out a tedious, two-page questionnaire with questions like: Hair color? Straight hair, curly or wavy? Eye color? Left-handed or right-handed? Jewish ancestry? College? Major? High school? Family illnesses or health issues related...