Word: unicorn
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...predict that the island of Hong Kong will not be engulfed by China; it will expand into the mainland. The dragon will not devour what the unicorn left. J.K.P. ARIYARATNE University of Kelaniya Kelaniya, Sri Lanka...
...tries to piece together the fragments of her life and loves by observing the natural wonders around her. She learns how stars and flowers were defined with the same Coptic words, and exchanges poems with wise, sand-hardened guides. Even when she goes fishing, she comes upon the "green unicorn fish," which uses its buckteeth to eat coral, and the "apricot-yellow" boxfish, which resembles "a lovely joke, a gift for a friend." The northern side of the Ras Benas peninsula of the Red Sea, she writes, is "a treasure trove of odd objects from around the world." In that...
...know where even moderately good ideas come from. Robert Harris, whose chilling novel Fatherland imagined what Europe might have been like had World War II stalled out in an English defeat and a U.S. withdrawal, makes a brave try at construing genius, the light bulb over the unicorn's head, in his new novel, Enigma (Random House; 320 pages; $23). The results are worthy and believable, if not luminous...
...also this strong desire to communicate through the body." Hence her body-art and performance pieces through the '70s and '80s, in which bodies (her own or others') got fitted out with bandage-like wraps -- symbols of Horn's obsession with healing -- or with peculiar extensions like a unicorn horn, or fingers several feet long, or enveloping soft forms like The Feathered Prison...
...overload of color and music, and roller-coaster pacing. Calculating that the attention span of the average child is about 8 1/2 minutes, he cuts most acts to their best eight. Feld's formula includes a dash of gimmickry to pack 'em in. In 1985 it was the "Living Unicorn," a goat whose horns had been surgically fused. The stunt drew criticism from animal-rights activists but boosted ticket sales by more than 20%. Says Feld: "P.T. Barnum would have been proud...