Word: feral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kitten the way you would a puppy, and it will grow up to act like a dog." (Scientists like Bekoff insist that the behavioral differences are in fact innate and that they are relics of the animals' past: wolves, the ancestors of dogs, are pack animals, while most feral cats are solitary...
...burst upon the West, defecting in Paris at age 23 after being ordered back to the U.S.S.R. in the middle of a Kirov Ballet tour. His partnership with Margot Fonteyn, prima ballerina of London's Royal Ballet, was the most famous of the century: her ineffable femininity, his feral grace. She called him "a young lion leaping," and wild he was. His tempers were fearsome, his demands insatiable. Unwilling to settle with one company, he put no limits on his own worth, and in demanding outsize fees and extras, he pointed the way to wealth for other dancers...
...Colleagues in the conservative movement have cuddly nicknames for Floyd Brown -- Boy Scout, Buckwheat, Baby Huey -- because of his deceptively gentle mien and innocent face. So it was hardly unusual last week, as he unveiled a feral TV ad attacking Bill Clinton's character, that Brown said in a mournful tone, "It's a sad state of affairs, but these are things the people have to know about." If neither the press nor the Bush-Quayle campaign will hound Clinton anew about his past, Brown said, someone must...
...BLESSING'S PLAYS ARE KNOWN FOR elegant language and stately topics, epitomized by his witty dialogue of nuclear disarmament, A Walk in the Woods. But in LAKE STREET EXTENSION, at the Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati, the characters are feral, the action grim and the vocabulary redolent of the ! gutter. Lake Street sets a father who sexually molested his son against a Salvadoran soldier who joined in the mass murder of peasants. The 90 taut minutes strip away layers of secrets and suggest a link between the men's sins -- a dependence on the propensity of bourgeois Americans to look away...
...Wood's life, though, as limned in Rudolph Grey's new biography, Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (published by the aptly named Feral House), there is a lot of American tragedy. For Wood carried a triple burden: he was a transvestite, an alcoholic and a dreamer. As a Marine during World War II, he made beach landings wearing bra and panties under his uniform. Demobbed, he played a half man-half woman in a carnival before arriving in Hollywood to satisfy his twin obsessions: filmmaking and angora sweaters. The confessional Glen or Glenda...