Word: wasps
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...third memoir, picks up right where Cherry left off, and it stands as a testament to the impossibility of shrugging off your own beginnings. Karr's childhood catches up with her, turning her into a self-doubting, raging alcoholic incapable of a healthy partnership with her über-WASP husband Warren Whitbread (not his real name). Thankfully, Lit also details the ways she went from suicidal to sober, got divorced and got published...
...escapes to an American university. Still, Sethi's sharp eye, worthy of being an entomologist's, makes the book a steadily absorbing read, all 400-plus pages of it. Recollecting his first day at a private boy's academy, Zaki remembers of a classroom: "A dead wasp lay on its back in a corner of the windowsill with its legs curled up. It had wandered in past the mesh and never found its way out." It's a muted metaphor not just for Zaki but for Pakistan as a whole. It's this kind of nuanced detail in The Wish...
...gonna happen. I'm a Wasp. I was raised to suppress my emotions.' ANDERSON COOPER, CNN anchor, refusing to dance with Ellen DeGeneres on her show...
...plate. According to Beer, Darwin used this language because he believed that living creatures were difficult to understand, and acted on more than just instinct. He believed that oysters and polyps and plants possessed some free will. Beer paraphrased Darwin’s response to a colleague who believed wasps to be mechanical rather than conscious beings: “Good heavens, is it disputed that a wasp has this much intellect?” Darwin was also intensely interested in the consciousness of other humans, including children and indigenous people. Near the time Darwin wrote about the free will...
...produced ethnic dolls in the past, including a few it might like to forget, like the 1981 Oriental Barbie or the 1967 Colored Francie. But other than the fact that there is a brunette version, very little about the new Shanghai Barbie doll is different. Same long legs, same wasp waist. Barbie may be entering her golden years, but Mattel is betting there's life...