The character’s appeal is universal though because she represents a feminist politics of disrespectability (what black American feminists call ratchetness) that has no time for prim notions of femininity as demure, quiet and self-effacing.

I blocked the mittens by wetting them and pinning them to a shaped piece of cardboard.

“Miss Simpkins, please make the gentleman out a receipt for seventy-five dollars’ deposit on camera,” said the dealer in a matter-of-fact tone. “Yes, sir,” said the bookkeeperess.

Iguanids apparently were isolated in Africa by epicontinental seas and gave rise to chamaeleonids in the west and agamids in the east; the scincomorphs radiated in Laurussia, giving rise to the teiids in North America and lacertids in Europe.