Word: angora
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...adolescent enthusiasm that has been stifled in her mid-life soul. Every mundane moment is suddenly precious: breakfast with her parents and kid sister, singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" in homeroom, catching Dick Clark on the old American Bandstand ("That man never ages!"). She dotes on her angora sweaters and her Iron- Maidenform bras, her mom's Rice Krispies cookies and tremulous advice ("Peggy, you know what a penis is -- stay away from it!"). She enjoys vamping Michael the beatnik, sharing a joint in a moonlit meadow as he howls out his Ginsbergian verse ("Sucking pods of bitterness...
Women have a little more flexibility, depending whom they want to be taken for. Angora sweater, tight skirt, colored nylons and pumps the Screaming Wellesley. Useful only if you want six slobbering moustaches in leather jackets and open shirts crooning. "We sure is from Harvard" as their breath corrodes your makeup. On a weekend, looking like you're almost off to a party provides a useful excuse to disengage from the lovestruck Lothario trying to stuff his phone number down your décolletage ("Excuse me, I'm expected at the party the football team is throwing"). Another weekend option...
...looks like a zookeeper's prank: a goat dressed in a sweater of angora. But the odd-looking creature that appeared on the cover of the journal Nature last week is no joke. The animal is a crossbreed of two entirely different species, a goat and a sheep. Inevitably, it has been dubbed a geep...
...visible qualms about describing an uncannily similar "incident" that has since befallen a friend of hers who "writes about angora sweaters" for a Toronto lifestyles journal, one who, in fact, partly sparked her idea for Rennie's character. The coincidence apparently does not strain Atwood's credulity. "The normal thing about normal people is that strange things happen to them. Usually, you have to tone down reality to make it fictionally probable...
...present, but once was the happy owner of an alley cat named Fritz. She confesses to "a love for the cuddliness, the softness of cats." Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison, who contributed much of the reporting for the cover, provides a home for Victoria, a ten-year-old Persian Angora with silky white hair and green eyes. Fond though she is of Victoria, Harbison stops short of a blanket endorsement of the whole species. Says she: "Victoria is not like a lot of other cats. She is extremely affectionate, and she'll flirt with strangers because she wants...