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...close encounter with a grizzly bear in a bad mood is a terrifying thing. The monstrous beasts can weigh in at nearly 900 lbs. and stand more than 9 ft. tall when they rear up on their hind legs, brandishing their 5-in. claws. And unlike many wild animals, grizzlies are not more afraid of you than you are of them. Unless you're carrying a powerful gun when you meet one, there's a reasonable chance you will end up as lunch--as anyone seeing Werner Herzog's new documentary, Grizzly Man, will learn in particularly gruesome fashion...
Anyone who has owned dogs or spent much time watching them is familiar with the posture: hind end up, chest down on the ground, forelegs stretched forward, an eager expression on the face. It's obviously a friendly, playful gesture, and for most dog lovers, that's all you need to know. Ethologists--animal-behavior experts--go a step further. They call this move the "play bow" and know it's used not just by dogs but also by wolves and coyotes to signal an interest in the romping, pretend-fighting sort of games that canines of all kinds seem...
...Apolitical Rocky does not care. But his friend and sometime opponent Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) does, and in an exhibition match (staged--plug, plug--at MGM's Las Vegas Grand), he is sadistically beaten to death by the Soviet. That, of course, gets the Italian Stallion up on his hind legs, pawing...
...dash towards Johnston Gate for the last wheezing ride home would become an infinitely more pleasant experience if Dartboard knew he was running for a vehicle whose hind two-thirds had been converted into the Party Shuttle, a mobile throw-down that hops all the way from Currier to Harvard Business School and back. Disco balls, strobe lights, hydraulics and a thudding sound system would banish trudge and grumble from the Quadling’s commute for good...
...drag experiment occupies a shaky middle ground between spectacle and serious commitment. I worry that it will be perceived as the former, but I’m not doing it for a bear-walking-on-hind-legs laugh. I’m just trying to wreak a little gender havoc...