Word: fur
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...lovers travel through the bleak Chicago landscape, they occasionally burst into mimicries of the kind of elaborate Busby Berkeley song-and-dance numbers Hollywood so admired during the depression. When Arthur fails to get a loan at the bank, for instance, hundreds of smiling girls in black-and-white fur bunnysuits suddenly appear, highstepping wildly to the strains of Yes, Yes, My Baby Said Yes, Yes. And when a sweetly-lisping Eileen loses control of her rowdy charges, she miraculously dons a long silver-lame dress and launches into Love is Good for Anything that Ails You, as her squadron...
...typical still life of earlier centuries-the 17th century Dutch table, say, cascading with "parrot tulips and gold beakers, fur, fruit, fish, feather and dew-drops-was a symbol of appropriation. It declared the owner's 5 power to seize and keep the real stuff of the world. Even the still lifes of that great master of meditative vision, Chardin, tend to retain this emblematic quality; it was written into his social background. In Morandi, things are otherwise...
...except for glum captives in city zoos, there is a plethora of polar bears around Churchill, especially in fall. By the time the ice freezes on Hudson Bay, as many as 200 may have passed through what local residents call the Polar Bear Capital of the World. The onetime fur-trading center happens to sit astride one of the animals' age-old migratory routes...
...prodigious number of Americans have become smitten with cats. Others continue to bad-mouth felines. Are cats stouthearted companions or unresponsive curmudgeons? Or are they, as Cartoonist Bernard Kliban suggested in his bestselling album Cat (1975), merely whimsical meat-loaves? While the fur flies in this battle, one cat gives folks a humorous peek at both armies in the controversy. The most famous feline to express this perplexing relationship between man and pet is Garfield, a comic-strip cat. His creator, Cartoonist Jim Davis, has three books on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, a first...
From the cameo-smoke Maine Coon to the lavender-silver . Oriental Shorthair, there are approximately 50 hue and pattern variations of fur among the 33 breeds recognized by the Cat Fanciers' Association. But differences other than the decorative are important to prospective owners. Personality, price, size and even voice guide selection. The following short alphabetical catalogue of standard and exotic breeds demonstrates the spectrum...