Word: bowled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biggest draw by far is the Fancy Feastbooth, where trainer Scott Hart feeds a WhitePersian named S.H.3, a relative of the cat thateats out of a crystal bowl in televisioncommercials. S.H.3, paws the air, eats fromcrystal, curls up on a director's chair, eats froma spoon. Awed by this brush with celebrity, thecrowd is silent. Old ladies with Polaroids pushtheir way through to the front, determined to makea visual record of the encounter...
Siberian eyeballs are large and stringy, and they have nerve endings still hanging down. They're too big, in fact, to keep from sliding out of the mouth into the bowl...
...word of mouth until he found the right check-out line at last year's International Gift Fair in New York. Maybe you can't take it to a minimart, but with a plastic liner, the chrome-plated version can be used as a wine cooler, a salad bowl or even a purse. Reidy says some Rolls-Royce dealers give the 24-carat gold-plated model to upscale Santas, who use it to deliver a set of car keys. Sales so far: 15,000. If you can afford it, check...
...contrast to the veterans, contributor Pico Iyer was new to the Olympics. "My only previous experience of any sort of winter games," he says, "consisted of sitting in California watching the Super Bowl with the air % conditioner on." Yet his fresh eye and fine prose provided a rich sense of the Games' atmosphere. Aptly, his most memorable moment happened far from the action: "One night I missed my bus connection and I was reduced to walking to the next village. The scenery, pale blue in the frosted moonlight, was magical, but scenic vistas were not the first thing...
...hilarious exhibit explains the not-so pleasant bodily functions of burping, diarrhea and passing gas. The model toilet--complete with (you guessed it) imitation poop--is a definite favorite. Somehow, even though kids and adults alike find it repulsive, they make repeated trips to stare into the porcelain bowl...