Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many people in rural America, just getting by, still depend on hunting for meat to fill the freezer. But mostly the country buys its meat in cling-wrap packages at Safeway and Winn-Dixie. "We've lost our connection to the land and the outside world," says Jerry DeBin, Alabama's coordinator of conservation education. "Most people don't even notice which way the wind is blowing today. The squirrel or deer may be eating more today because a change in the weather is coming, but we don't pay attention to these things anymore...
...someone love animals--cats, dogs, beasts of the field--and then shoot to death an animal as elegant as a deer or a dove? To answer the question, begin with the paradox of Teddy Roosevelt: America's greatest conservationist, creator of the national park system--and archtype Bambi killer. Roosevelt blazed away at all the animals of creation...
Thus began a cascade of defections from what was a rare unanimous international consensus backing U.S. military action. The U.N. announcement decisively changed the geography of the crisis. It was not Iraq that was isolated anymore but the U.S. The result was preordained: America stood down...
Does CGI spell the end of the old school? Not by a long shot: the ease with which the crudely drawn two-dimensional, or 2-D, worlds of South Park and The Simpsons have won over America's couch-potato masses is proof that story matters more than even the most eye-popping special effects. "Sooner or later, all this stuff is going to seem antiquated," admits Andrew Stanton, the co-director and screenwriter of A Bug's Life. "The script is the only thing that isn't going to deteriorate over time...
...some disappointment over Tom Wolfe's absence. The room, so festive in black, had expected a coronation for the man so tailored in white: his A Man in Full was the talk of the town, the favorite for the fiction prize. But then John Updike, the most influential of America's living novelists, took the stage looking as sharp as a scythe. What a night for a beheading...