Word: taxidermist
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...Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, Australia. Nigeria helped persuade the Commonwealth's finance ministers to shift their September meeting from New Zealand to the Bahamas, a move that further vexed the besieged Muldoon. Said he: "My first reaction was to tell them to look for a good taxidermist, but I restrained myself...
...elementary school and that time when your teacher loaded you and your classmates on a schoolbus for a field trip to the Museum of Natural History. You all gathered around some billion-year-old fossil or stood dwarfed beneath a terrifying representation of a brontosaurus, or marvelled at a taxidermist's conception of an extinct dodo bird perched in an artist's conception of its natural habitat while your teacher recited something about the Jurassic Period. And you trotted from exhibit to exhibit, awed and thrilled by them...
Even with the crane and wires, flying is not easy. Christopher Reeve, 24, who plays Superman, has to make a dozen or so passes 50 ft. in the air before he bags his cat, made suitably cooperative by the taxidermist. Every once in a while Superman is brought down for an adjustment of his ailerons. He has 25 different costumes and perhaps six different kinds of capes-for standing, sitting, flying and coming in for a landing. He is now wearing his flying cape, which is stretched out with wires so that it appears to billow in the wind...
...token woman is a black Chicana fluent in Chinese who has borne 1.2 babies (not on the premises, no childcare provided) owns a PhD, will teach freshmen English for a decade and bleach your laundry with tears, silent as a china egg. Your department orders her from a taxidermist's catalog and she comes luxuriously stuffed with goosedown able to double as sleeping or punching bag. --From The Token Woman, by Marge Piercy
...taxidermist spent quite some time looking for the Sasquatch in Canada, supported by an American millionaire. He used an original approach. He would snatch used sanitary napkins from women's bathrooms at gas stations, then run through the woods tacking them to trees in hopes they would attract a Sasquatch. If our mountain snowman when discovered really is abominable, he will have no trouble assimilating the traits of our society...