I sometimes call this the Wile E. Coyote effect because as long as Wile E. Coyote doesn't look down, he's suspended in air, even if he has just run off a cliff.
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I know how to wile out, I got that down.
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Wile said he felt "blindsided" and stopped taking the medication.
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Rob Wile contributed to an earlier version of this post.
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And that ACME/Wile E. Coyote sign taped to the doors?
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Somedays, I feel like Wile E. Coyote chasing the uncatchable Roadrunner.
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To a kid, that Wile E. Coyote feeling describes a cartoon.
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That's less time than Wile E. Coyote has in a "Roadrunner" cartoon.
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Here are five reasons for this potential Wile E. Coyote moment: 1.
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"It's not like you're going into the deep woods," Mr. Wile said.
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"I've got to do something," Ms. Wile later recalled saying to herself.
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I want the children to have the strength and wile of survivors.
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That changed for Wile this past May, when Wile learned the coupon no longer counted toward his deductible and that he would have to pay the full cost of the prescription—$183,600 per month—until he hit his deductible.
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Wile, who has a $2,750 deductible, used a coupon to obtain the drug.
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"We decided to see what we could do with it," Mr. Wile said.
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I wish every abuser would build a Wile E. Coyote trap for themselves.
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Or maybe he's just done, and content to wile away retirement with his family.
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He hasn't shown much subtlety or wile to support his talents and fundamentals yet.
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Trump is like Wile E. Coyote, sprinted off the cliff, hanging in the air.
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It's simply classic, like Wile E. Coyote or Foghorn Leghound nemesis The Barnyard Dawg.
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I don't think she thinks of it as acting or being Wile E. Coyote.
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My role models for how to do death are Jesus and Wile E. Coyote.
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Ian Wile, 21, and his wife, Rosalie Rung, 238, bought their Greenport summer house in 240, but it wasn't until Mr. Wile, who was between film-editing jobs, spent an entire summer there with his son in 453 that they considered relocating.
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This can actually be a fun way to wile away a boring meeting, as well.
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He's Wile E. Coyote, frustrated that the Road Runner keeps getting out of his reach.
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But like Wile E. Coyote, my trouble isn't running off the cliff—it's looking down.
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"Game of Thrones" instead relied on propulsion, like Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff.
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Matt Wile was signed to handle the punting for Sunday's game against the Houston Texans.
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I've let Steve's father down — he wants a grandson to carry on the Van Wile name.
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There is a Wile E. Coyote aspect to these clever, but not quite clever enough, inventions.
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But he's like Wile E. Coyote in a Road Runner cartoon, or the priest in The Exorcist.
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Adopting her mother's original surname for professional reasons, Ms. Wile worked as a singer, composer and lyricist.
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Someone please check old Wile E. Coyote cartoons, because only Hanna-Barbera could have foreseen this insanity.
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Then, they speed right off the edge, Wile E. Coyote-like, unaware of the stomach-churning drop below.
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In the preview below, we can see Rihanna sauntering down a hallway wile Glover plays an acoustic guitar.
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And a crazy case of road rage resembles a standoff between the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote.
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Organized by Aaron Wile, a curatorial fellow at the Frick, it's the first exhibition devoted to this subject.
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In his excellent catalog essay, Mr. Wile sees in Watteau a shift in ideas about representing human psychology.
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It looks like Wile E. Coyote ordered it from the Acme Corporation to drop on the Road Runner.
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But the movie gets the irony that, really, Jerry is Wile E. Coyote, out of road to run.
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"It's the cartoon where Wile E. Coyote straps himself to a rocket to chase the Road Runner," he says.
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Spotted by Locals is at its best for those looking for a local joint to wile away the time.
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"But I think we helped jump start the anti-Iraq war movement here in the city," Ms. Wile said.
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However, the solution to this very real problem has more in common with Wile E. Coyote than John Rambo.
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Charlie Brown never kicked the football and Wile E. Coyote never caught the Roadrunner because Charles Schulz and Warner Bros.
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When it was over, they had to peel him off the pavement like Wile E. Coyote flattened by an anvil.
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Jared Wile, who lives in Chicago, started taking PrEP about three years ago, when he was dating someone with HIV.
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It was like Wile E. Coyote running halfway across the canyon and realizing that his footing was a little suspect.
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In a news release, the company said its strongest categories were men's, home and footwear, wile accessories was the most challenging.
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He says he felt like Wile E. Coyote, of Looney Tunes fame, hanging in the air right before gravity kicked in.
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The post showed two officers setting up a Wile E. Coyote-style box trap that used a dozen doughnuts for bait.
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Running with your puppy is a great way to bond with him, wile away his boredom, and keep you both healthy.
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The show's been put together by Wile Out, which is run by Luny, and is the official party for this release.
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Looney Tunes shorts, Wile E. Coyote could be crushed by a boulder and spring back up to chase the Road Runner.
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"Wile E. Coyote always loses," he said, "but no matter how they try to kill him off, he always comes back."
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"I think that if you work as a radiologist you are like Wile E. Coyote in the cartoon," Hinton told me.
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" Twitter users responded with references ranging from Wile E. Coyote to "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General.
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But his "Tonight" lives in an American neutral zone that is disintegrating like a desert cliff beneath Wile E. Coyote's feet.
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The title cobbler is taciturn and pragmatic in a way that's magical; the sneaky thief is as persistent as Wile E. Coyote.
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The Cardinals' only score after the first quarter was a 40-yard field goal by Matt Wile late in the third quarter.
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The actors cavort nimbly around the elaborate stage, effigies in hand, firing off the propulsive text wile dexterously operating the hideous puppets.
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I feel like one of those cartoon figures — Wile E. Coyote perhaps — who sees the bridge he's crossing being erased behind him.
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That's the one where Wile E. Coyote strapped on a pair of Acme Jet-Propelled Skis in a bid to finally catch Roadrunner.
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Zenefits looks a lot like Wile E. Coyote in that it left the cliff a while ago and is only now looking down.
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Armed with enough lube, you can wile away the weekend jerking off to the bounty that awaits you on your favorite porn sites.
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Like a walrus version of Wile E. Coyote, he lived to dynamite treaties, alliances and anything with "global" or "multilateral" in the title.
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By then, past 80 and with Barack Obama, a more sympathetic president, in the White House, Ms. Wile decided to call it quits.
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Many Republicans have argued they are, wile Clinton's toughest Democratic opponent, Bernie Sanders, has said he is running against Hillary Clinton, not her husband.
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Why then would former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke talk about an impending Wile E. Coyote moment in which the economy falls off a cliff?
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Witnessing her miss notes can feel like watching the road give out from Wile E. Coyote as he chases the Roadrunner off a cliff.
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Then she explains how humidity has ruined her last can of Nescafé — coffee snatched away again, like Wile E. Coyote denied a bird dinner.
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If true, that's great news for pork producers, incautious bacon-lovers, and colorectal cancer cells that are just dying to wile out and metastasize.
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Vedvik was among the final players cut in Minnesota, as the team will instead go with Dan Bailey at kicker and Matt Wile at punter.
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Examining it, you feel a mystified wonder, and perhaps a slight misgiving about the inventor's soundness of mind, remembering what happened to Wile E. Coyote.
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Others joked about the way the whistles' brand name, ACME, evoked the name on the disastrous inventions used by Looney Tunes character Wile E. Coyote.
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The fear among some Conservative advisers is that the party has mimicked Wile E. Coyote: it has already run off the cliff, but not yet plunged.
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It was blue, about three feet square, and weighed 965 pounds—like the Acme safes Wile E. Coyote used to try to drop on Road Runner.
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In contrast to 2011, when she avoided cameras wile carrying Blue Ivy, Queen Bey has been regularly showing off her growing baby bump this time around.
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Seeing it in action is almost comic, like one of Wile E. Coyote's Acme products in the modern age, but it works with power and precision.
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Still, I can't really bring myself to believe that Britain will plunge into the ravine like Wile E. Coyote — surely that won't be allowed to happen?
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I can't think of a better way to wile away this sleepy summer Saturday than a delightful thread filled with fluffer-faced dogs and golden insights.
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The whole puerile process reminds me of the old Wile E. Coyote/Road Runner cartoon, with Road Runner eluding the coyote at the end of each episode.
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Wes Scantlin scared the crap out of his neighbors by pulling a Wile E. Coyote plot that made his car look like a bomb ... TMZ has learned.
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"Ultimately, this has the ability to be a global marketplace measured in the billions," said Anthony Wile, a Canadian venture capitalist who is one of PharmaCielo's backers.
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Johnson got his moniker from chasing his preferred car, the "Road Runners", paying homage to the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner Looney Tunes cartoon series.
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In this world, Freedman is simultaneously both the trickster Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner, blithely speeding away from untimely death and into the embrace of uncertainty.
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"Daytona International Speedway has been privileged to have hosted several sitting Presidents of the United States over our history," track president Chip Wile said in a statement.
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We had the hours and untainted joie de vivre to wile away playing Candy Crush or take an actual invested interest in the lives of celebrities' pet monkeys.
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ExxonMobil and Chevron have been hampered for the last year by the Wile E. Coyote–like fall in oil prices, with crude oil dropping by nearly two-thirds.
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Rhonda Wile, who had begun working on behalf of Surrogacy India, the agency that connected her with her Indian surrogate, told me she's saddened by the new legislation.
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They have the resiliency of Wile E. Coyote, picking themselves up after each failed plot backfires and redoubling their efforts to destroy their foe with ill-conceived plans.
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She latches hard onto a target, then uses her considerable wits and wile to worm her way in; a process that, all by itself, is impressive to behold.
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What appeared to be the Wile E. Coyote-esque nature of the man's final moments made him an instant, meme-worthy celebrity some 2,000 years after his death.
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You might imagine that Olympic athletes do little besides work out, that they wile away their days with hours and hours of repetition at the gym, track, or pool.
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On a humid Sunday night, easily one thousand Santiagueros gathered in the city's central Plaza Marte to wile away the remaining hours of May Day, the biggest national holiday.
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They are also evidence that human imagination will always resist homogenization, that daring art isn't found only in galleries and museums, that wit and wile are everywhere among us.
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His marriage is still broken, an internal investigator is still breathing down his neck, and Axe, the elusive Road Runner to his Wile E. Coyote, is still at large.
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His syllables can be arrhythmic, and the conclusions of his lines fall over the end, like Wile E. Coyote zooming past the edge of a cliff, legs still pumping.
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It was enough to help MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan climb 2114.76 percent to its highest since late October, wile Shanghai stocks edged up 2116.87 percent.
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"Daytona International Speedway has been privileged to have hosted several sitting Presidents of the United States over our history," Daytona International Speedway President Chip Wile said in the press release.
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Peterson's mom started to call him Coyote, as in Wile E. After college, where he designed his own filmmaking major, Peterson got a job at a printer ink company in Columbus.
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While Mnangagwa, known as "The Crocodile" for his political wile and longevity, has strong credentials as a veteran of the independence movement, he lacks Mugabe's standing as a national liberation hero.
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Watch the episode below: 'Outsourcing Embryos' on Vice HBO When Rhonda and Gerry Wile had a baby boy in 2000, they did it the new old-fashioned way: with a surrogate.
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I think I bought it as a kid because of the included flip-book: flip the pages, and Wile E. Coyote chases the Road Runner down the margins of the page.
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The wheel just popped off the shaft and he found himself holding it in his right hand, you could almost feel him helplessly blinking at the camera like Wile E. Coyote.
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So, for example, you'd see Wile E. Coyote chasing The Road Runner, and then they'd fall off a cliff, and he would pause it and rewind it, like a pause tape.
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Coyote Johnson, nicknamed after the cartoon characters Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner from the Looney Tunes series, has been collecting muscle cars from his "glory days," according to VanDerBrink Auctions.
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"Daytona International Speedway has been privileged to have hosted several sitting Presidents of the United States over our history," Daytona International Speedway President Chip Wile said in a statement on Thursday.
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Ms. Wile and a largely gray-haired group parked themselves for an hour of street theater every Wednesday afternoon in Manhattan on Fifth Avenue in front of Rockefeller Center from Jan.
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In 2006, armed with a bucket of cookies, Ms. Wile was one of 18 women, aged 59 to 91, who tried to enlist at the Times Square armed forces recruiting station.
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Balty is a recognizable type: the bumbling, shiftless young man with neither talent nor accomplishments who ingenuously blurts out things he shouldn't say yet manages via wile and luck to survive.
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I'm thinking about the way energy moves through the composition and creating portals in the same way that Wile E. Coyote throws a black hole and diverts someone to another dimension.
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You suspend your disbelief as Wile E. Coyote is suspended midair in a Looney Tunes episode before plunging off the cliff, for it seems anything is possible in the spaces Davidson creates.
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And yet, while endurance suggests pain, it can also convey humor and resilience — as anyone who spent their childhood watching cartoons such as Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner would know.
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Dr. Andrew Adesman, the chief of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at the Cohen Children's Medical Center of New York in Queens, said he remembered watching Wile E. Coyote cartoons as a child.
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One minute you might be dancing on air, ecstatic, and the next you're looking down, off the edge of a cliff with feet madly churning like Wile E. Coyote in mid-fall.
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It may not be beautiful or perfect, and power may seem quaint at 225 hp, but you will find yourself looking for excuses to wile away hours on back roads to the beach.
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If these factors were to materialize, it could be that instead of a Wile E. Coyote moment, we experience a growth recession with the Road Runner experiencing a bad spell of food poisoning.
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The official promo for Strava's new beacon feature shows a runner attempting to outpace a giant boulder — something I suspect isn't too common an occurrence unless you're Indiana Jones or Wile E. Coyote.
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The much ballyhooed increase in U.S. defense spending for fiscal years 2018 and 2019 faces the same challenge as cartoon character Wile E. Coyote, who unknowingly runs off a cliff without looking down.
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Bret: For the past year, I've felt that the country has been suspended over air like Wile E. Coyote in those gravity-defying seconds before he takes the plunge to the canyon floor.
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Wile shrugged and added chipotles and some of the adobo sauce in which the peppers are sold, and then a beer to loosen things up, and some salt to sharpen all the tastes.
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But Donald Trump and Nancy Pelosi are more like the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner of American politics, our Karen and Jack, our Alexis Carrington and Dominique Deveraux, our Ren and Stimpy.
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We're told James Otis was intercepted by Vegas police over the weekend when he tried to pull a Wile E. Coyote scheme at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas ... at $2,300 per night.
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Bana's account is controlled by her mother, Fatemah, and they've been making headlines in recent months wile live-tweeting their day-to-day lives from Aleppo, the city at the center of Syria's bloody conflict.
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Still, he doesn't expect to see the fallout from the 2015 bans, because people who go to countries like India and Thailand for surrogates—people like Rhonda and Gerry Wile—do so because it's cheap.
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Every Saturday morning kids of my generation would watch as Wile E. Coyote would find new, creative ways to avoid learning the same basic lesson: the Road Runner played by a different set of rules.
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"You know, that cartoon is really correct — Wile E. Coyote and the real thing are not that much different," said Mr. Vincenti, a barber by vocation, but also a die-hard advocate for urban coyotes.
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"In my life and career I have often heard it said that so-and-so has real power -- as in, 'the powerful Wile E. Coyote, chairman of the Capture the Road Runner Committee,' " Dingell wrote.
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By 2020, when Mr. Bernanke believes any stimulative effect of the tax cuts will have run its course, we will be facing what he called a Wile E. Coyote economy, after that overeager cartoon character.
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Click here to view original GIFGIF: YouTubeThanks to the never-ending battle between Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner, the thought of someone dropping an anvil on your head seems like a minor inconvenience at worst.
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" Bernanke added that the federal government's spending "is going to hit the economy in a big way this year and next year, and then in 22019, Wile E. Coyote is going to go off the cliff.
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" Bernanke added that the federal government's spending "is going to hit the economy in a big way this year and next year, and then in 2020, Wile E. Coyote is going to go off the cliff.
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If you count yourself frustrated with the absurdity of the current Republican mouthpiece, here's a perfect way to wile away your boredom: Topple Trump, a word-blank game dedicated to the best (or worst) Trump-isms.
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Through a series of hilariously detailed anecdotes that included a chihuahua in a top hat riding on roller skates, among other absurdities, Jones was inspired to create the adventures of Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner.
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They would wile away afternoons working on tracks, an activity that began to take up all of Carter's spare time as he'd cut rhymes while subsisting on little more than sugary breakfast cereals and ice cream.
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As a divorced single mother pursuing a career, Ms. Wile acknowledged in her book "Grandmothers Against the War: Getting Off Our Fannies & Standing Up for Peace" (2008) that she had been relatively unconcerned about the Vietnam War.
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There are echoes, also, of Death Becomes Her, and the anarchic slapstick that transpires between a group of characters—like Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, or Laurel and Hardy—that can be wounded but never killed.
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Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo)Zanco's Smart Pen isn't actually a pen, it's barely a phone (and not very smart), and the company behind it sounds like an outfit that supplies Wile E. Coyote with an assortment of random gadgets.
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Jairus' cannon has a wonderful 'banned science fair experiment' aesthetic to it, but it also looks like something Wile E. Coyote would have ordered from the ACME catalog in another ill-conceived attempt to take out the Road Runner.
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The image that keeps running through my head these days is of Wile E. Coyote, running to the edge of the cliff, full steam ahead, unable to stop as the solid ground cedes into air and gravity takes over.
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Betsy Wieseman was named head of northern European paintings; Shelley Langdale was named head of modern prints and drawings; Brooks Rich was named associate curator of Old Master prints; and Aaron Wile was named associate curator of French paintings.
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Obviously, they're displeased with the lower courts' rulings — which are, cumulatively, the kind of pummeling you're more likely to see in a Road Runner cartoon, with the administration playing Wile E. Coyote — and hope to see them pushed aside.
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And in time, if you haven't run through a wall a la Wile E. Coyote, you can skip all of these responses and just look at her the first time with eyebrow(s) raised and be done with it.
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Leslie Morgan Steiner, who introduced Rhonda and Gerry Wile in her 2013 book The Baby Chase: How Surrogacy Is Transforming the American Family, told me that reproductive technology landscape has changed drastically in the three years since her book was published.
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In production or development at the studio are movies that seek to revive characters in the company's Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera libraries, including new takes on Scooby-Doo, Wile E. Coyote, the Jetsons, the Flintstones, and Tom and Jerry.
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"We're honored that the President of the United States has chosen to experience the pageantry and excitement of 'The Great American Race' by attending Sunday's 62nd annual DAYTONA 500," Daytona International Speedway President Chip Wile said in a statement last week.
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Gork and his fellow cadets may snort "firebolts" and belch "firestreams," but they also pilot sentient spacecraft, wear capes and wield "powerstaffs": souped-up scepter/smartphones packed with gadgets like teleporters and lasers that would make Wile E. Coyote drool.
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"Rudy has become the Wile E. Coyote of this scandal," said Wilson, who advised Giuliani when he was New York mayor in the 0003s and early 2000s, a potential U.S. Senate candidate in 215 and a presidential candidate in 219.
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The metaphor is irresistible: Maybe Richard Branson is Road Runner, and we are all Wile E. Coyote, thinking we have just been delivered a beautiful gift, but instead we open the box and discover we are holding a bomb. Boom. Blink-blink. Space.
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Loosely inspired by the director's own short-lived career as a collegiate ballplayer, the film follows a rowdy baseball team as they wile their days away partying, trying to get laid, hazing the newbies, and competing (off the field, and over anything).
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It's as if Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner were playing an absurdist game show based on "No Exit," or perhaps a postmodern take on the Raymond Queneau book "Exercises in Style," which tells the same anecdote in 99 different ways.
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Joan Wile, a former songwriter and actress who in her 259s weaponized the power of grandmotherhood by organizing a nine-year-long weekly vigil by fellow venerable protesters against the war in Iraq, died on May 291 in Nanuet, N.Y. She was 19503.
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There's only a sign taped to the door by the current tenant, a company that is leasing the space and preparing for a mission Bleth can't tell us about: Notice: Authorized Personnel Only And then there's an illustration of Wile E. Coyote, looking all cocky.
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While the Democrats and their media allies attempt to bring down the Trump presidency with a determination reminiscent of Wile E. Coyote's pursuit of the Road Runner, the president's efforts to shrink the size and scope of government are producing some very positive economic results.
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So far we're doing a pretty shit job of things, but with this hopeful burst of synth-pop, the Los Angeles trio has built a sanctuary in which it's possible for marginalized people to let go and wile out like Kevin Bacon in Footloose.
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That said, Knick Knack might be one of the flat-out funniest shorts Pixar has ever made, as its increasingly desperate protagonist resorts to Wile E. Coyote-level schemes to escape his dome — only to discover that cruel fate has other plans in mind.
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Mine this week comes from a kind of cowboy ragù that I saw put together the other night by an oysterman named Ian Wile on the East End of Long Island, cooking on a disco in front of his shop, Little Creek Oysters, in Greenport.
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Staring into the circle is supposed to provoke contemplation of the void, and perhaps get the viewer to consider the great unknowable mysteries of the universe—or, you know, just lead them to take a spill like some kind of real-life Wile E. Coyote.
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Turner, for his part, is shocked, literally all of his limbs splaying out in a grand expression of surprise, looking like Wile E. Coyote when the rocket he aims at the Roadrunner quickly spins around and is poised to turn him into a pile of ash.
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The economic effect of President Donald Trump's $1.5 trillion tax cut and $300 billion bump in federal spending will wear off in two years and then "in 2020 Wile E. Coyote is going to go off the cliff," former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said this week.
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The movie fits an old trope of children's shows in which two nemeses (like Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny, or Tom and Jerry) face off, often with slapstick violence in the form of explosions, high-speed crashes or falling anvils.
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In nontheme news, I liked some of the fill that seemed like a nod to Mr. Yankovic, like Tom LEHRER and John CLEESE, in addition to the shout-outs to memories from his and Mr. Berlin's childhoods, like Wile E. Coyote (TNT) and Star Trek ("HE'S dead, Jim").
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" Crowe would take short breaks to go back to his native San Diego, but primarily he was with Bowie who at the time was between albums (Young Americans and Station to Station), press shy, and experiencing what Crowe now called "kind of a wile period in his life.
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Then there's the suspicion, which freezes into certainty, that those who work so ardently to achieve their elusive goals will never, ever be rewarded: not Wile E. Coyote in pursuit of the fleet Road Runner, nor Sylvester the Cat, hungry eyes forever trained on the unreachable Tweety Bird.
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Ms. Wile had written letters and marched against the war, but it was a horrific photograph in Time magazine — of a 21950-year-old Iraqi boy who had been burned and lost both arms and whose family had been killed by American bombs — that galvanized her to do even more.
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Ben Zobrist has been even better than hoped, to the point where it almost hasn't mattered that Jason Heyward has scuffled awfully all season and Dexter Fowler got hurt and crashed back to earth, leaving one of those comical Wile E. Coyote-shaped holes in the ground in the process.
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And it was an entertaining game, in the way that Golden State games are entertaining: the Warriors relentlessly scoring in increasingly absurd ways, and Steph Curry making people look silly, even Kawhi Leonard: That's your defensive player of the year getting twisted and spun into the ground like Wile E. Coyote.
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I also saw that I was slow returning to the T; that I sometimes took an unaccountable extra hop before setting off, like Wile E. Coyote band-sawing his legs in midair; and that when I hit my backhand crosscourt I threw my body wide open, a cuckolded husband ripping aside the drapes.
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To remember the tumid boomer individualism of Bill Clinton's years in office, or the Wile E. Coyote triumphalism of Bush's, or the studiously cool cosmopolitanism of Obama's, you need only to look at the cultures over which they presided; even the creative work that was conceived and created in open protest against them reflects it.
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Books of The Times Thin and lost and wounded and chained, his face blackened as if a bomb had gone off in his hands, Wile E. Coyote-style, John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban," captured as an enemy combatant during the United States' invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, was a figure of pity and mockery.
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Augmenting the naturalism of his early work with a slapstick absurdism pitched somewhere between the worlds of Luis Bunuel and Wile E. Coyote, the Georgian populated the City of Light with an assortment of layabouts, vagabonds, and ne'er-do-wells, concentrating their personal storylines into elegant vignettes that he wove into a larger network of intersections and juxtapositions.
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Also the two-tone cowboy shirts and placket trousers that Mr. Simons has used in every collection since his Calvin debut, and skinny striped sweaters and sweaters with Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner knit in, plus apron dresses with nothing underneath, so the breasts were exposed (a strange segue into Naughty Nellie from the general store).
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Aukeman has also organized the group's first show in nearly 60 years, The Rat Bastard Protective Association, at the Landing in LA. With MoMA posthumously anointing Conner "one of the foremost American artists of the postwar era," he and his art have officially entered the canon, despite — but also because of — the Wile E. Coyote–esque efforts he made to resist the domesticating influences of the art world.
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