Word: zeppelined
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...NORTH END there are no supermarkets with piles of sealed cans and waxy frozen packages. Instead, the wealth of food is spread out through blocks of small shops. Bakeries are a jumble of fresh pizza, sesame seed rolls, zeppelin shaped loaves. Fruit and vegetables come live and kicking from baskets and boxes. You want meat? Then go next door to the butcher. There's sure to be one. Outside his store freshly slaughtered lambs and rabbits (still with head and fur) hang from red hooks, and well preserved pig heads leer through the front window. Inside Al or Louie...
...Pooh we have the gruff Andrew T. Weil, who plays the part midway between the young Albert Alligator and a zeppelin. Christopher Robin is James Shuman, and vice versa. And Piglet is rendered in a whining monotone not unlike a dog-whistle by the porcine Francine Stone...
...positively gargantuan. She is 82 feet long, 30 feet wide, weighs six tons, is built like a zeppelin of chicken wire, fabric and glue, and is currently lying on her back with knees raised in a gallery of Stockholm's Museum of Modern Art. A cross between an amusement park and a return to the womb, She is one of the most uproarious, outrageous-and incredibly popular-exhibits to make its debut in Sweden's capital in years...
...rambling opener, Paar twitted the Vice President: ("it's like being a travel agent for a Zeppelin"), knocked L.B.J. ("I get the impression that when the President speaks he is speaking under our heads"), and then excused himself from partisan politics: "I am like the little old lady who said: 'I never vote; it only encourages them...
Once Dorothy got into the act, Ekins and the other reporter involved, the New York Times's Leo Kieran, never really had a chance. Just like a woman, Dorothy came in late. Ekins and Kieran had already booked passage to Frankfort on the Zeppelin Hindenburg's last flight that year when Dorothy decided to join them. She was then a 23-year-old crime reporter for Hearst's New York Evening Journal, and she had never reached an altitude more dizzying than Brooklyn's Prospect Park, near her home. "Oh, golly, to go around the world...