Word: taxidermist
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...cluttered attic, full of ungodly bric-a-brac, and she awakens in a starry mausoleum. Siegfried slays the dragon Fafner by chopping at a gigantic crab's claw and then pushing over a flimsy set of painted flats. The forest bird who guides the hero to Brunnhilde is a taxidermist's specimen, carried aloft on a stick by a highly visible soprano...
...surf, or the whine of a chainsaw. The only bits of excitement were the occasional long periods of silence, each one of which caused me to look up from my notes, half-expecting it to be followed by a dull thud and a cry for oxygen or a taxidermist...
...building in Malibu that she built as an investment, a hideaway in Washington State with panoramic views of Mount Rainier and a comfortably cluttered apartment on Manhattan's East Side. The furniture there is mostly old and relatively inexpensive. The objects in the living room-oriental bibelots, a taxidermist-mounted dove given to her by Fidel Castro, a pillow embroidered with the slogan LEAVE ME ALONE, I'M HAVING A CRISIS-are all chosen, MacLaine says, for their sentimental associations, not beauty. Says MacLaine: "I did all the decorating myself, here and in Malibu. The style there...
According to Taxidermist Dick Turner, a leader of the Missoula opposition group, which hopes to put the question of regulation to a countywide vote...
...share of double takes. The man robbed by Suder tracks him to a cabin in Oregon, where he notices the large pet: "What's that?" Suder's reply: "That's an elephant." And then there is the joke about Suder's manager, an amateur taxidermist, who shows up unexpectedly and tries to kill Renoir with a chain saw: "I can't wait to stuff this sucker." By now, Suder has acquired other eccentricities. His cabin mate is a nine-year-old girl named Jincy, a runaway from her abusing mother. She comments: "This is weird...