Word: toadstools
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...cartoons both secular and otherwordly, selected from the pages of the liberal Catholic journal The Critic. Here a prim stewardess warns a passenger, "You can't read erotic books while we're in Irish air space," and two dour leprechauns, spotting a leprechaun bishop under a toadstool, observe. "So much for our carefree, puckish way of life." Funny fauna inhabit Animals, Animals, Animals, edited by George Booth, Gahan Wilson and Ron Wolin (Harper & Row; 241 pages; $12.50), an old-fashioned chortler of a book. Next to a sign reading DO NOT FEED THE BEARS a smirking moose wears...
...tent. "He's getting his wok," Lori said in her gravelly voice. "We're going to have the traditional revolutionary meal of his ancestors." She paused. "They ate it before the Big One in '48." Too emerged with the huge dome upside down over his head, looking like a toadstool...
...There are a lot of emporia along the game board. We are going to discuss clothes stores first, because I am eager to get in a word about Krackerjack's, which is the mother toadstool in the mushroom cellar of the Square...
...Eichenberger's tubular framed sofa (Sten-dig, $1,000) is a relatively straightforward, clean-lined exercise in the Miesian idiom. Blond wood was back in Edward Wormley's new line for Dunbar, which features ash in everything from storage carts that open up for dining ($560) to toadstool-shaped tables ($248) and benches...
Blame for 95% of the victims was laid on an innocent-looking toadstool with a greenish cap known as Amanita phalloides,* whose tender meat can cause violent abdominal cramps, vomiting, diarrhea, liver damage, intense thirst, convulsions, delirium, and death in from five to ten days. Concerned, Paris officials dispatched special champignon sherlocks to inspect incoming truckloads of wild mushrooms at the central market, and the Pasteur Institute stepped up shipments of an antitoxin serum...