Word: hippopotamus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first half of the performance ended with the Flanders and Swann song "The Hippopotamus," with the audience singing along on the chorus of "Mud, mud, glorious...
...Communist takeover in his country. The day will come when, thanks to the Sandinistas, it will be easier to find a giraffe, a hippopotamus or an elephant here than a member of the Costa Rican Communist Party...
...inexplicable wooden signs on the walls that they forgot their other jokes. These strange-looking notices made vague references to theatricals, agents, children and pets which none of the agents, children or pets around me could understand. (There were no theatricals around to be consulted, although a hippopotamus hiding under an ash tray was also perplexed...
Llosa's play Kathie and the Hippopotamus is itself about writing. Kathie and Santiago, the main characters, create their fiction out of the material and people of their pasts. As the characters of the past appear and hold discussions with the writers, time ceases to consist of events stacked neatly one upon another...
...museum in Bodrum, Turkey: 6,000 lbs. of copper ingots (the "biscuits"), a store of tin (which was combined with copper to make the bronze that gives the era its name), scattered pottery, gold objects, amphoras filled with glass beads, and some ivory from an elephant tusk and a hippopotamus tooth. Says Bass: "I can say without hesitation that this is the most exciting and important ancient shipwreck found in the Mediterranean...