Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (Brazil/Paris) analysed the comparative relation between exonymy and endonymy in lowland South America.

The medicine of the nineteenth century was haunted by that occult eye which cadaverises life.

Nontenured teachers can be eliminated at whim, but as soon as they get tenure they are bulletproof: you'll never get rid of one.

The tourists stuck to the safe confines of the gift shop, where they bought souvenir combs, shot glasses, oversize pencils, and blocks of cedar painted with rhyming poems and shellacked to a high gloss.