Word: elephantitis
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"Hold it! Cut!" bellows the ringmaster. "That's not what I mean. We need the Greatest Show on Earth! Lights! Camera! Circus!" A bright spotlight shines on a bejeweled woman riding an Asian elephant, who leads a circus parade with all the trappings: clowns on unicycles, clowns on stilts, 20...
Sprawled across a rose-patterned armchair in his new Hollywood Hills home, John Goodman looks like a baby elephant lolling in a flower bed. The oversize (6 ft. 3 in., 260 lbs.), overworked actor is taking a rare five-day respite from his nonstop schedule. Says Goodman, with a sigh...
It was the bountiful sea life that initially drew large numbers of men to the southern continent. When James Cook first circled Antarctica between 1772 and 1775, he saw hordes of seals on the surrounding islands, and during the next century the continent became a hunter's paradise. By the...
The most intrusive visitors are those who tramp through penguin rookeries and other wildlife habitats. Going anywhere near certain kinds of seabirds can frighten them enough to disrupt feeding patterns and reproductive behavior. Though warned not to litter, some tourists leave behind film wrappers, water bottles and cigarette butts. And...
Behemoths are not an exclusive of the dinosaur era. Some of them can still be spotted spouting in the oceans of the world. Seymour Simon's nonfiction * Whales (Crowell; $14.95) follows their astonishing life cycle as the babies drink 100 gal. of milk a day, breathe through a hole in...