Word: walls
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...housewares in the Beast's castle may make one cringe with embarrassment, Gaston's idiocy and the rest of the town's blind adoration of him remains mildly entertaining. Lawson's portrayal of the handsome villain as Elvis with extra testosterone remains particularly amusing, and the enormous stain glass wall picturing him as a Christ-like figure is downright hilarious...
PAMPLONA, Spain: Hemingway's favorite festival, the weeklong drinking-and-bullfighting binge known as San Fermin, has claimed yet more victims. One man died Thursday when he plunged off a wall; another is in serious condition after a bull trampled on his head; a third was gored in the leg by a bull that had rid himself of his rubber horn protectors. Add to that the casualty list of head and jaw injuries earlier in the week, and you have one of the bloodiest San Fermins since -- well, since the last life was claimed...
...YORK: After suffering from a momentary lapse of enthusiasm Wednesday, Internet stocks reignited Thursday following an amazing spate of announcements from Wall Street's darling, Yahoo. The buoyant trio of Net portals -- Yahoo, Excite and Lycos -- was up a combined 20 points by noon, with Yahoo accounting for half that gain, and the tech-heavy NASDAQ was pushing into record territory...
...Yahoo's earnings prove it's the strongest company in the group, says TIME Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec. Will it turn out to be the next Microsoft? "That's a crazy bet to make and yet everybody's making it," Kadlec says. "Yahoo is riding a mania for Internet stocks, just like the mania for biotech in 1991. These stocks have so much room to collapse." Indeed, in announcing only a 2-for-1 split Wednesday (effective in August), Yahoo might be signaling that it knows some bearish days are coming. Notes Kadlec: "A $200 stock price means Yahoo...
...icon whose impromptu 1961 border crossing produced one of the era's most searing images; after hanging himself; in Bavaria, Germany. Shutterbug Peter Leibing stood by--and snapped--as the defiant 19-year-old East German soldier hurdled the tangle of barbed wire that would soon become the Berlin Wall...