Word: goldfish
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...Family Guy. Yes, its protagonist, CIA agent Stan Smith, is a nuclear-family patriarch. And where Family Guy has a talking dog and Cleveland a talking bear, Dad has both a talking alien (a show-tune-obsessed card with a voice like Paul Lynde's) and a talking goldfish. (See the worst TV spin-offs of all time...
...Nowadays, though, that rulebook has been thrown out. Now, if the tabloids get a story, the mainstream has to hop on or they'll be accused of a cover-up. It shouldn't be a surprise for any President that he's being watched, that he lives in a goldfish bowl. There's no place to hide anymore...
...Christian Andersen's fable The Little Mermaid crossed with souvenirs from Miyazaki's youth. "We used to have tin toys that would float in the bath," he says, "and I thought it might be good to revitalize some old-fashioned toys like that. So I started thinking of a goldfish." The young fish, named Brunhild, is swimming with her sisters in Miyazaki's sea when she escapes this seeming paradise, floating up to the surface and getting her snout stuck in a jar. A 5-year-old boy on the shore yanks her out. He is Sosuke (voiced by Frankie...
...unusual to be able to do that at Harvard.” Despite this isolation, Clark rose to the enormous challenge of filling in the technical gaps in HRDC’s often ambitious projects. “Theater technicians are like water. Tech theater is like goldfish,” Clarks says. “You know how goldfish will grow to fit their bowl? So do we, kicking and screaming.” Clark has gone beyond the basic requirements of “growing to fit the bowl.” He sacrificed a spring break...
...Chinese Communist Party. Now he lives under virtual house arrest, his every move observed, every visitor screened by a handful of guards, every conversation presumably monitored. The Communist Party would clearly like him to fade into oblivion, to live out the rest of his days caring for his goldfish and taking walks in the park. But Bao Tong has no intention of going quietly. (See pictures of China on the wild side...