Word: walrusness
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Which description better suits him is a hot issue in Washington these days. Young, who once angrily flourished an oosik--that's the penis bone of a walrus--at Mollie Beattie, the director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, is among the most powerful of a group of environmentally unfriendly lawmakers from Western states. As chairman of the House Resources Committee, he has decisive say over a controversial rewrite--or gutting, as Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has put it--of the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Last week Young and his allies rolled over Democrats and even a few moderate Republicans...
...relax, but as soon as we reached the test line I was suddenly more nervous than I'd been in a very log time. Rudy told me that the test would be a piece of cake, as long as I didn't get the rather large man with the walrus mustache standing across the street. Unfortunately, after several minutes of squirming on my part, Walrus himself approached the Honda. Rudy disappeared and Walrus settled into the passenger's seat...
...pulled away from the curb my entire body froze up. My formerly smooth, fluid motions became stiff and jerky. I felt myself turning red. Walrus, meanwhile, was not amused...
...Life is what happens when you're off making other plans."--John "The Walrus" Lennon, singer, prophet, painter...
...This is a show which intentionally debunks its own rules. By establishing the basic parameters for the work of objects, it become inescapably obvious how blurred the lines between them are such that Henry Beck's London Underground diagram hang on equal footing with a classical statue and a walrus' tuck...