Word: amazon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although gaggles of girls go for heroine and princess gear, some youngsters, like Radhika Garland, tried to be creative. While browsing at Boston Costume, she decided to dress up as "an Amazon because it's something new. I'm always a witch." An amazon? The river, perhaps, or maybe the Imax movie. Alessandra Davin initially planned on being a hippie, and then the devil, but ultimately settled on "Dracula...because...um...I just thought of it." Clever! While all frightening characters were moderately popular, the Scream-murderer attire proved to be a particular favorite. Marta Bezoari said she wanted...
...take two trips. Yo mama is so old, I told her to act her age and the bitch died. Yo mama is so stupid, it takes her two hours to watch 60 Minutes. Jokes like this may be off limits, but papas are fair game when Amazon Slam, an all-woman poetry slam kicks off tonight. The evening also includes comedy from Michele Balan and Diva Mama 7:30 p.m., Ryles, 212 Hampshire St., Inman Square...
...picketing Home Depot, the mammoth building-supply chain (sales last year: $24 billion). Customers will be offered "rain forest tours" through the store, spotlighting products made with trees from pristine, old-growth forests around the world: dowels and tool handles of ramin wood from Southeast Asia, doors of Amazon mahogany, cedar shingles and Douglas fir lumber from the temperate rain forests of North America, lauan plywood from the Philippines and Indonesia...
...mighty Amazon river itself is seldom referred to or shown. Portrayed in popular culture as a romantic mystery of steaming jungles, wild native peoples and unpredictable currents, the Amazon river shown here looks calm and serene in the mid-morning sunlight...
While not as informative as a National Geographic special on a mediocre day, and not quite as entertaining as a decent feature film (which has a comparable admission price), Amazon still offers a fun alternative to staying home. It is worth both the time and temporary discomfort to the neck, even if only because it is an IMAX show. It might not be educational in the strictest sense, but that is not the point. Like most, if not all IMAX pictures, Amazon is all about being swallowed up by a world of vivid color and humbled...