Word: toni
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...Shoes,” two sisters, Maggie and Rose Feller, share nothing in common but shoes, both in their mutual passion for footwear and in their size 8-1/2 feet. Rose (Toni Collette) is a Princeton-educated attorney, short and kind of frumpy. Maggie (Cameron Diaz) is her party-animal kid sister, embarrassingly idiotic yet able to seduce any man she targets. Maggie bums off of Rose’s couch and they establish a somewhat reciprocal, primarily parasitical, relationship, in which Maggie updates Rose on the latest fashions (“1994 called—it wants...
...people from the Iatmul tribe live along the banks of the Sepik, and on the tiny creeks and tributaries that carve up the district. They know the power of the skulls. One of their people, they believe, paid a terrible price for selling a head. The man, Toni Kawa, "went into the bush and when he came back he started vomiting; and just from vomiting he died," says a fellow villager who preferred not to be named. "Then his wife died. The only way (to stop the bad luck) is for Toni's clan to die." Another villager believes...
...TerraMar Research on Bainbridge Island, Wash., animal behaviorist Toni Frohoff has also observed dolphins behaving with what appears to be altruism--although not predictably. In one case, she recalls, she and her colleagues watched a group of dolphins assemble around a female swimmer the researchers later learned was exhausted to the point at which she was afraid for her life. "Conversely," Frohoff says, "I have been 'abandoned' [by dolphins], where all of a sudden they'd disappear and I'd see a shark...
...will remain the same person," Nadal tells TIME. "It would be stupid to change." Raised on the island of Majorca, Nadal has athleticism in his blood. His uncle Miguel Angel, dubbed el Carnicero (the Butcher), was a bruising defender on Spain's national soccer team. Another uncle, Toni, taught natural righty Nadal to play tennis left-handed, a serving advantage, but his serve still needs work. "Rafa" has Toni as his coach to this day. The family turned down invitations for Nadal to train in Barcelona with other budding Euro pros, shielding him from a culture that often chews...
...power; computer is rorohiko, electric brain). Most Maori speakers, though, learned English as their first language. And when their Maori vocabulary comes up short, they reach for an English word. Young speakers increasingly structure Maori sentences as if they were English, says Bauer. "Swapping words is one thing," says Toni Waho, a pioneering te reo teacher. "The sinister thing is when grammar changes, because grammar reflects cultural values and ways of thinking. We have to be very vigilant in ensuring the grammatical structure of Maori isn't taken over by English...