Word: furred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...female to that list. BINTI JUA ("Daughter of Sunshine") was sitting in her enclosure at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo when a three-year-old toddler, in the uncontrolled exuberance common to his species, fell 18 ft. into the area, knocking himself out. Although his lack of fur showed he was not one of her brood, and Koola, her daughter, was clinging to her side, Binti gathered the boy gently in her arms and took him to the door where most of his kind usually gathered. The humans, after retrieving the boy, went, well, ape. Binti became a heroine...
...memorial idea. In the warm glow of the White House it was easy to ignore the growing clamor at the gates about a memorial that is taking $42 million in tax money and has no depiction of Franklin Roosevelt in a wheelchair. (Or, for that matter, of Eleanor's fur stole, now considered too controversial...
...GOES WITHOUT SAYING THAT LIBERALS ARE AT FAULT FOR nearly everything that is wrong with the world today, from welfare to your cat's fur balls. But you would think that liberals could not be blamed for Pat Buchanan. Yet some conservatives have even tried to pin the rise of this fiery right-winger on liberals. They note that Buchanan bases some of his screwy ideas on the work of an obscure economist, whose name he picked up from an article by the liberal journalist James Fallows. They observe that Buchanan's concerns about layoffs and middle-class insecurity (though...
Another cop (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai) has an affair with a stewardess he first seduced at 30,000 ft. But when she leaves, he goes amiably nuts, brushing the fur of his stuffed animals, talking to a bar of soap ("You've lost a lot of weight--you need more self-confidence!"). He's just the lost soul for a fast-food cook (punk pixie Faye Wang) who sneaks into his flat each day for some erotomaniacal housecleaning. It's a match made in Hong Kong heaven...
...effectiveness of this approach seems weakened by the necessity of ascertaining the color of the bear. I can imagine one of our guests yelling to me, "Does that look black up there near where his fangs are bared? Or is that just the way the sun hits the fur when he gets into mauling position...