Word: ant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ant. at Gold...
...certain point in the development of a culture, it demands computer-animated ant movies. So in 1999 DreamWorks will offer Woody Allen and Sharon Stone in ANTZ, and Disney will give us A Bug's Life this November. Jeffrey Katzenberg, who had nothing to do with the latter before he left Disney for DreamWorks, says Antz "is the story of one ant who wants to be an individual in a world in which that's a big no-no. That ant turns into Spartacus and leads an entire revolution. And Woody Allen is Spartacus...
...Since my time, Harvard has really assumed control of Radcliffe, it runs everything, and I think that's fine. But I think that it's time that the situation was recognized ant Radcliffe became a college of Harvard University...
...much. Schrager published a parody of the children's classic in book form as a high-concept promotional brochure for his Miami hostel, the Delano. In Delia at the Delano, by Bob Morris, DELIA, right, sun-dries her own tomatoes, does Barbie liposuction and has a Prada ant farm. It's not unwitty stuff, but Thompson isn't amused. "I think they should be arrested," the nonagenarian eccentric says of the book's creators. "It's stealing." Instead, Simon & Schuster's legal types, mindful of Eloise's 41 years of healthy sales, warned Schrager to stop distributing his book, which...
...appears he may have been right--or largely so. Recently returned from a Himalayan expedition, French explorer-anthropologist Michel Peissel and British photographer Sebastian Guinness say they have located the gold-digging ants on Pakistan's Dansar plain near the tense 1949 cease-fire line with India. The "ants," it turns out, are actually marmots, cat-size rodents that burrow in a gold-bearing stratum of sandy soil a few feet underground. Peissel believes Herodotus' confusion came from the ancient Persian word for marmot, which means mountain ant...