Word: specimens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...road show of Lord of the Flies, but the Spectors seem ideal parents-to-be. Yet they can't be biological parents. Every month Linda says, "I spend two weeks whacked out on fertility drugs, two weeks depressed that they don't work." In the bathroom, Michael opens a specimen jar, picks up a well-thumbed copy of Penthouse and sighs. There is no joy in their rituals, only emptiness and failure. Time to adopt a baby...
...American Civil War forced the curtain higher. When the fighting began in 1861, Mathew Brady was the country's best-known photographer, an early specimen of the celebrity portraitist and a frank businessman whose New York City studio was located not far from P.T. Barnum's museum. Brady kept a second studio in Washington, and when the First Battle of Bull Run broke out just 25 miles from the capital, he rushed toward the lines with two vanloads of equipment. Amid the scramble of the Union retreat, all the plates from that first day's work were lost...
Take for example, the album's first single, "I'm the Type of Guy." Who does LL think he is? Adonis? Valentino? Wade Boggs? The song makes LL sound like the greatest male specimen ever to wear a Kangol. Give it up, Cool...
...lined with Plexiglas, and three video cameras track him constantly. He is so prone to commit mayhem that when a visitor calls, Bosket is chained backward to the inside of his cell door. When the door is swung open, there is Bosket, pinned to the bars like a specimen in a bug collection...
...German-born Empress, Elizabeth Humphrey appears to be thoroughly amused by and admittedly attracted to Edstaston, who turns out to be a prime specimen of the English booby. The attraction is clearly one way, however. Edstaston finds the Russians utterly abhorrent and uncivilized...