Word: dodo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cosmetics industry. In the Pacific Northwest, the sockeye salmon is proliferating, thanks to artificial incubation and man-made channels that allow the fish to bypass barriers on their way upriver to spawning lakes. Conservationists are also bringing back the takahe, a large New Zealand bird that resembles the extinct dodo, and the vicuña, a llamalike Peruvian animal that has been overhunted for its luxurious wool...
...suppose this can all be explained. Fellini is no dodo. He is making a film about decadent Roman society, and where we decadent Americans presume that our symbols have some reference beyond themselves, and thus make for a cleaner reality on another level, the symbols of Fellini's Rome never flee the decadence and malaise that creates them. For example, in one take, two of the main characters are walking past a side street, up which horses are drawing a 20-foot high statue of a head. The two are on their way to a brothel. Trying to understand...