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...drifted, swam or were carried there. Ninety-five percent of the reptiles, 50% of the birds, 42% of the land plants, 70% to 80% of the insects and 17% of the fish live nowhere else in the world. Among them: giant tortoises, Galapagos penguins, waved albatrosses, flightless cormorants, Galapagos fur seals, seagoing iguanas, three types of rice rat, Galapagos bats--and 13 species of Darwin's finch, whose variously shaped beaks, perfectly adapted for the foods they subsist on, were used by the scientist to illustrate his theory of evolution...
...scheduled performances began around 6:30 p.m. The first act featured, Elmer Fudd and a strikingly tall Bugs Bunny in drag. Bugs wore a faux fur bikini top and bottom, a faux fur cape, waist-length blond braids, and a Viking helmet with horns...
Keeve peeks beneath this cover to the realities of fashion fantasy. Mizrahi explains that his collection-to-be is inspired by "Nanook of the North"; but his inner creative genius is tormented by the knowledge that big fur pants won't sell. "It's about women not wanting to look like cows. I guess," Isaac muses from between his sheets: "Actually, there's something quite charming about cows...
...fall "gesture" chronicled in "Unzipped" inexplicably has its genesis in Clark Gable's discovery of a supposedly frostbitten Loretta Young in the film "Call of the Wild." Mizrahi sets (and Keeve clips) the moment at which he discovered his new season's look: she's wrapped in fur; her make-up is "dewy," lip gloss fresh. "If you must freeze on the tundra." Mizrahi deadpans, "this...
Fields said the terrible connotations of such metaphors cling to the images they describe "like the smell of skunk on the fur...