Word: furred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feels skinned by all the negative comment. Mizrahi is a witty, self-aware fellow, and his running commentary on his work life is often hilarious. He goes to see Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty's classic 1922 documentary about Eskimos, and decides he wants to design only fur pants. He interviews hopeful models, although when his show finally opens, he seems to have hired only superstars like Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford. Working with Eartha Kitt, who wears his finery when she performs, he nuzzles her overwrought lapdog and remarks, "It's almost impossible to have any style...
...problem is in striking a balance. In the early 1800s Jackson Hole was merely a valley where fur traders put up their tents; in the past few years it has become a vanity address for stock traders and business tycoons to erect their second and third getaway homes. Since 1986 local housing prices in Jackson have risen 15% a year, while local wages increased only 5% annually--a trend that could force out the wealth-impaired. So town and county leaders enacted a development plan barring oversize "trophy" homes with more than 8,000 sq. ft. of livable space...
...many people struggling mightily to keep their weight in check wouldn't trade places with the mice in Dr. Jeffrey Friedman's laboratory? Two weeks earlier, these roly-poly fur balls weighed three times as much as a mouse should, and they still couldn't stop snacking. After daily injections of a new hormone, however, the tubby rodents suddenly started consuming less food and burning more fat. They shed those excess ounces and trimmed 30% off their bloated size. Even better, their cholesterol readings fell, as did the high glucose levels that made them mildly diabetic. Virtually overnight, it seemed...
Adding a note of mystery, the film is punctuated with shots of an anonymous man who sits by a fire at the edge of the lake by Pavel's home. Wrapped in a tattered fur coat and wincing faintly, he looks as if he knows the cruelty of the world around him. Like the audience, he is a spectator, neither directly involved or affected. Is God just another spectator? Despite the final confrontation, the question of God's existence remains unresolved...
Bunyan, once the greatest logger of them all, and his emotionally delicate cobalt-blue ox, Babe, have fled from the industrialization of logging in the Northwest to the California redwoods. Swathed in fringed and beaded leather, his beard tied with a thong and the ensemble topped with a fur hat, he resembles a strange kind of bear. His hilarious bouts of self-pity and childishness make Bunyan the perfect counterpart to his more serious companions...