Word: botti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This sudden popularity is partly due to the Britons' traditional interest in Lagomorpha, from the March Hare in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to the whole cast of Watership Down. It may also be attributed to the book's Botti-celliesque illustrations in which natural laws are suspended and the floating vistas of childhood are suffused with magic realism. But in the main, Masquerade's phenomenal rise can be credited to that basic human characteristic: greed...