(1) Spotlight is still the favourite to win best picture A dinner in Beverly Hills was hosted in Spotlight’s honor on Sunday night.
(2) At one point he teases us with the intro to 'When You Were Mine' at another he wittily picks out the theme to The Beverly Hillbillies .
(3) The lack of obvious motive baffled commentators who said the British director of Top Gun, Crimson Tide and Beverly Hills Cop II appeared to have it all: success, wealth, respect, a wife and two young children.
(4) Got warrants from Beverly Hills?” the flyer asked.
(5) They are dealt with on a case-by-case basis by individual boroughs.” However, Aaron Schoenberger, CEO of Beverly Hills-based social-media threat-assessment company Soteria, can offer some insight.
(6) Principally, there was the legal conflict with actor James Woods, who in 1988 accused her of exotic harassments including leaving a disfigured doll outside his home in Beverly Hills.
(7) The Irish band played at a hotel in Beverly Hills, appearing as part of a star-studded benefit concert for Haiti relief.
(8) At a shelter in the town of Chahuites, several migrants told the story of a Honduran migrant called Beverly who had disappeared a few days earlier: a people smuggler had kidnapped and raped her younger sister, Fatima, whom he was holding prisoner in a nearby town.
(9) His mother was a singer and his father, Beverly, played piano and bass; together they had an a capella jazz group, and there would always be singing at home.
(10) There was laughter, but the room at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles fell silent as it appeared Foster, 50, had a serious point to make.
(11) Get past its use by Mike Leigh in Abigail's Party – which made it an icon of bad taste thanks to it being played by the awful Beverly – and Love to Love You Baby is charged with feelings of liberation, a pre-Aids world of pansexual freedom and adventure.
(12) Get a poor family from the rural south and relocate them in a Beverly Hills mansion, complete with staff and pool, and then film it as part of a reality series called the Real Beverly Hillbillies.
(13) The vision status of 77 deaf children from Beverly School for the Deaf, Beverly, Massachusetts, was investigated in 6 general areas: visual acuity, refractive status, binocularity, color vision, pathology, and visual perceptual motor function.
(14) The track, shamelessly mocking the pretensions of people who falsely associate themselves with the fashions and styles of the sprauncy Gangnam district of Seoul – a kind of South Korean Beverly Hills – has been called a "force for world peace" by the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon .
(15) The ‘erasure’ of women killed by police Facebook Twitter Pinterest A #BlackLivesMatter protest marches through the posh city of Beverly Hills.
(16) That Psy is promoting upmarket frocks and luxury fridges is somewhat ironic, considering Gangnam Style's lampooning of the rampant consumerism that pervades what has been described as South Korea's Beverly Hills.
(17) We don’t want to embarrass anyone but we do have inspections,” said Beverly Hills spokeswoman Therese Kosterman.
(18) A block further sits what locals call “Beverly Hills”, an idyllic town square that seems a million miles from the rest of Havana: a gentrified bubble that’s home to the first signs of Western capitalist franchising.
(19) She had a heated row with the late John Casablancas (founder of the Elite model agency) about the idea (still shamefully prevalent today) that there was only room for one big black model at a time – and that was Beverly Johnson, during this period.
(20) In a town like Beverly Hills, with almost no industry and a minuscule tax base, what makes civic initiatives possible is also what denies many people their freedom: tickets, and lots of them.
Platypus
Definition:
(n.) The duck mole. See under Duck.
Example Sentences:
(1) A 57-year-old man was envenomated via two spur wounds to the right hand from each hind leg of a male platypus.
(2) Recommendations are made to improve the survival of platypuses in captivity.
(3) It is as peaceful as a platypus playing with a potato pudding.” In 2007 Levy published Love and Sex with Robots , a book that one USA Today critic found “troublingly arousing”.
(4) Of 213 platypuses that died in captivity, 81.7% had died within 1 year; most within the first month.
(5) These findings suggest that the spleen is the primary hemopoietic organ in the platypus.
(6) Within the distinctive platypus beak, the animal had rows of sharp teeth, which scientists believe they used to slice and chew crayfish, frogs and small turtles.
(7) #Bellfie by Matt Collins, managing director at Platypus Digital The big craze for 2015 will be the #bellfie.
(8) The intestinal mucosa of the platypus takes the form of numerous transverse surface folds.
(9) These include animal embryos – platypus and wallaby – and specific body parts of other mammals, such as the arm of a koala.
(10) The most conspicuous features are: 1) although no protein casts are found in the tubular lumina, epithelial cells of the proximal convoluted tubule (PCT) have numerous electron-dense vesicles as in human nephrotic kidneys; and 2) the platypus Henle's loop consists of the thick epithelial cells similar to the mammalian type nephron of birds.
(11) Afferent responses were recorded from filaments of the trigeminal nerve in each of two platypuses (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) anaesthetized with alpha-chloralose.
(12) Two neurohypophysial peptides have been purified from acetone desiccated posterior pituitary glands of the platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) by molecular sieving and high-pressure liquid chromatography.
(13) The karyotype of the platypus (2n = 52) has several features in common with those of the echidna species; six pairs of large autosomes, many pairs of small (but not micro-) chromosomes, and a series of small unpaired chromosomes which form a multivalent at meiosis.
(14) Neurohypophysial hormones of platypus seem similar to those of echidna, the other living prototherian, and to those of most placental mammals.
(15) The ratio of the contents of the two major mammalian ganglioside fractions GD1a and GT1b is generally in the range of 1.0 and even higher; in the heterothermic platypus from the monotremes and in hibernators among the placental mammals, however, it is much lower (about 0.8).
(16) As compared to those of other mammals such as humans and rats, our observations suggest that the platypus kidney is less developed, in terms of evolution.
(17) The platypus X chromosome, identified by the presence of two copies in females and one in males, has been found to possess a suite of genes that have been mapped to the X chromosomes of all eutherian and metatherian mammals.
(18) To describe in detail for the first time, the clinical course and medical management of a significant human envenomation by the Australian platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus).
(19) Methods used included SEM of methacrylate casts of marsupial enamel tubules, worn and cut surfaces of whole marsupial teeth, developing and erupted platypus teeth, and a well-developed molar of the newly discovered Miocene ornithorhynchid Obdurodon sp., and tandem scanning reflected light microscopy of intact marsupial teeth.
(20) The generation of blood cells has been observed in the spleen and in the bone marrow of the platypus.