Word: spider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...designed like a courtyard in a fancy modern hotel. Everything looks new and precise. There's grass, and a lagoon with concrete islands for the spider monkeys and gibbons. The monkeys have wood houses on metal poles, each labeled in over-large letters: "Spider Monkeys" and "Gibbons...
...young Durrell saw death too. The crisp horror of a tarantula killing a newly hatched bird is as vivid in his prose as it must have been to the watching boy. "The spider drew the quivering baby to him and sank his long, curved mandibles into its back. The baby gave two minute, almost inaudible squeaks as it writhed briefly in the hairy embrace of the spider. The poison took effect, and then the spider turned and marched off, the baby hanging limply from his jaws." Happily, Durrell refrains from following this description with a bloodless dissertation on the importance...
also had eyes on Ferrari. Founder Enzo Ferrari, a onetime racing driver who rules his 30-year-old Modena plant with almost ducal authority, at first turned away both suitors, though he did agree to design the engine for Fiat's Dino Spider sports car. Since then, however, the prancing black horse of Modena, the longstanding insignia of Ferrari, has worn few winner's laurels. So far this year, Ferrari's single-seat Formula 1 cars have broken down in three major races - Monte Carlo, the Grand Prix of Spain and of South Africa. The laborious production...
...even simpleminded, like one devoted to Senator Eugene McCarthy ("I love you so". . .). Some labor through metaphorical complexities. Stalin, for instance, begins botanically, switches to a feline metaphor ("What shot him clawing up the trunk of power?") and finally reaches a fine physiological line, "his intimates dying like the spider-bridegroom?/ The large stomach could only chew success...
There had been an open bar for an hour before dinner was served by the Club's buxom serving girls, and the combination of the two made it fortunate that all the awards were the same--Paul Revere Bowls. Distance man Spider McLoone, the squad's self-styled Ed Sullivan, officiated as master of ceremonies, making a futile attempt to keep the level of the banquet respectable...