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Word: girdhari (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...government's reasoning is that a bear should live free in a forest, not in a crowded city-and certainly not with its teeth removed, subsisting on bread and milk and fettered by a painful noose through its nose. They shouldn't behave like Girdhari Lal, a bear who knows all the standard stunts. How does a movie heroine walk? The bear stands on his hind legs and sways seductively. A hero? The bear swaggers. Show us how to smoke a cigarette? The beast puffs on a bamboo stick. And are you going to claw these nice people watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Setting Free the (Wrong) Bears | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

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