Word: walrus
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...being shrugged off. Just as global warming has made it easier to get to the Arctic, so high oil prices have made it worth the hassle of doing so. This summer's activities were, in essence, attempts to claim the rights to seabeds that few considered worth a walrus's whiskers a generation ago, when oil was cheap and the ice was thick...
...departs the room, not physically but mentally, says a family friend who has also worked for him. He loses himself in thought or a book or whatever he's doing and can't be raised or roused. When that happens, his daughters have a nickname for him: the Bull Walrus. And so they will wave their hands and affectionately call out their pet name for their dad - "Hey! Bull Walrus!" - as if he were sleeping on a big rock near the Arctic Sea. And then he'll come...
...mind, a kind of co-creator. It was Martin who put a string quartet under Paul's solo guitar rendition of "Yesterday" - the first of many flabbergasting expansions of the Beatles' basic rock 'n' roll sound - and who helped alchemize John's "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "I Am the Walrus" into coherent electronic chaos...
...performances are appropriately complemented by a quirky choice of score, vibrant hair and makeup, and fantastic costuming designed by Casey M. Lurtz ’07. For example, Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee (Rugani and Jennifer L. Brown ’07) tell Alice the story of the Walrus and the Carpenter using illustrations on their skirts. Acting and costuming thus combine for a re-imagining of each character that is extraordinarily successful. It does, however, fall short in a few instances—the most glaring of which is Drake’s decision to sexualize the Queen...
...also pries open the songwriting dyad of McCartney and Lennon, who couldn't seem to stop writing perfect pop songs even when they couldn't stand each other. Anything was raw material: a cornflakes jingle (Good Morning, Good Morning), a snippet of Shakespeare on the radio (I Am the Walrus), the stoned ramblings of Peter Fonda (She Said She Said...