Word: texan
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...Quimby" is mostly made up of single-page strips that first appeared in "The Daily Texan," the student newspaper of the University of Texas at Austin, and later in a Chicago's alternative paper. Read episodically, these strips must have seemed little more than a mysterious downer. Presented collectively, the themes become much clearer, with narrative threads that tenuously link one strip to the next. Most are mute pantomimes featuring the Quimby character, who, not coincidentally, looks a lot like George Herriman's Ignatz Mouse. (Ignatz and Krazy Kat appear within the first ten pages of the sketchbooks, along with...
Dick Bass, a Texan who salts his speech with darlin' and dadgum, was 51 years old and clueless about expedition climbing when he decided to summit Mount McKinley in 1981. Bass, the owner of Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in Utah, had no idea McKinley was among the hardest U.S. climbs. He made the decision to brave the elements after a particularly tough employee pronounced that he would never cut it on the mountain. Bass vowed to prove her wrong. "I didn't even know how to put a tent up," he says. But off he trudged, defiantly...
...Being in the South was a shocker for many of us,” Kang, who is from California, added. “We hadn’t had much experience with these wide-open plains and huge pickup tracks and lots of Texan pride...
...Harvard University is one of the finest in the land,” he said, mocking President Bush’s Texan drawl and face of dumbstruck stupor. “[Your] exuberance exudes a confident confidence of a bygone...
...Merle Haggard's Okie from Muskogee from a second-floor balcony. A good time was had by all. At a press briefing that evening, legislator Jim McReynolds said, "We have not heard from Governor [Rick] Perry or Speaker [Tom] Craddick, but we have heard from the most powerful Texan of all, Willie Nelson...