Word: albino
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...inspiration that the look she had envisaged for the story—“Harry Potter meets English private school meets upper-crust garden party”—necessitated the presence of something white and frolicky. It hadn’t been easy finding a photogenic albino rabbit with owners crazy enough to lend their beloved pet to a group of flaky fashion types. This involved a few frantic phone calls to pet shops until finally I was put in contact with a starry-eyed rabbit breeder (surely the world’s easiest job) willing...
Vladimir Nabokov, visiting lecturer on Slavic Languages and Literature, and Theodore Morrison, professor of English, both agreed that critics would not revert to a literal interpretation of the novel now that a French vessel has reported the capture of a real albino sperm whale...
...albino hawk has come to the valley. I like to watch him presiding over these complexities. I see him riding the air currents that curl up from the ridges on either side as the wind flows through the north-south valley. He was born a red-tailed hawk, but colored all white, a relatively rare occurrence but seen sufficiently often to earn the albino a short item in the bird books...
...storm is over, and the sun returns. The albino rides the light. At a certain angle, the bird becomes a radiance, a sort of feathered parhelion, a sundog. Yet at the core of the radiance you make out a dark center, the bird's skeleton and organs - in the way your hand looked to you when you were a child and you shined a flashlight beam through it, and through the translucence of your flesh, saw the dark blur of your bones...
...from Cameroon). Tenda Brasil, another stage, is a showcase for up-and-coming young Brazilian acts as well as a few established masters. And finally, there's the main stage, Palco Munda, a huge white tent that looks like a daisy gone to seed or the back of an albino armadillo or a punk rocker with spiky bleached-blank hair. The front of the tent is cut off and the stage is open to an enormous field which is about half full of people. The crowd is mostly young - teens, twentysomethings and thirtysomethings - though the first day is unofficially billed...