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...fur trade is bristling over TV ads for Disney's newly revived One Hundred and One Dalmatians. The 1961 classic portrays the fiendish CRUELLA DE VIL as a Leona Helmsley-esque character obsessed with luxury furs. The ads create "a gruesome picture in ((children's)) minds, making them understandably upset the next time they see their mother put on a fur coat," complains Fur Age Weekly editor Lisa Marcinek. Joining the fray, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals exhorts parents to expose their children to the film's "playful, yet solid antifur message." And so they are. Dalmatians...
...animal-rights zealots, who sometimes seem to have greater respect for fauna than for their fellow humans. In some bastions of correct thinking, a woman wearing an ermine coat stands more chance of being attacked by an egg-throwing lover of stoats than by a mugger. (The fur-wearing woman's offense would be compounded if she were eating a veal sandwich or carrying a non-biodegradable Styrofoam container of coffee...
...blue-collar workers denounces it as a disaster tax. At issue is the six-month-old "luxury tax" that Congress adopted last year as part of a comprehensive deficit-reduction plan. The new 10% excise tax was tacked onto such goods as pleasure boats, private airplanes, jewelry and fur. While the tax bite is not particularly severe -- a minuscule $25 million is expected to be raised in fiscal 1991 -- the levy has outraged businessmen and workers who produce and sell these items...
Though Yeltsin fits the label of populist, he possesses a depth of character and an integrity that make him much more than a Huey Long in a Siberian fur hat. Like many populists, Yeltsin has made his share of rash promises -- to provide all Muscovites with an apartment by the year 2000, say, or to achieve a measurable improvement in living standards in two years. But unlike most, Yeltsin has taken his political lumps and recovered from them. He has perceptibly matured from the brash, almost bullying Moscow party boss of 1987, who boasted that he fired...
According to local legend, the Grand Tetons were so named by fur trappers who hadn't seen any women for the duration of their expedition. The horny men came upon the mountain range and immediately decided that the peaks on the horizon resembled "Grand Tetons"--French for "big breasts." This leads to the unfortunate incidence of women buying souvenier T-shirts which read--you guessed it--"Grand Tetons" in large letters across the chest. So much for class...