Word: hyena
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...England Patriots, the hoodie-wrapped Houdini of the sidelines, dresses down on game days? You should check out his sartorial selections during the week. Before a practice in late November, Belichick is wearing jeans and a ratty gray shirt; it looks as if a dog--and then a hyena--has feasted on his collar...
...Heist of the Hyena Eliot House...
...small golden jackal, nipping at the rump of a hyena twice its size, chases the intruder from its territory. Two young lions tear into a still struggling buffalo calf. Such violent scenes are everyday rhythms Among Predators and Prey (Sierra Club Books; 224 pages; $35), the reflections of Wildlife Photographer Hugo van Lawick. The author has a long acquaintance with rough nature: he has lived with East Africa's wild animals for a quarter-century part of the time among chimpanzees with his former wife Jane Goodall. Van Lawick's knowledgeable narrative recalls a life that included a stint covering...
...object to your using an elephant's backside to illustrate the Republican Party's fall from grace. It was insulting to elephants, which are intelligent, sensitive and compassionate creatures. A better symbol for the G.O.P. might be the hyena. Opportunistic, hunting alone or in packs, it is ruthless and cunning. I'm confident that this proposed G.O.P. mascot could not possibly offend anyone except, perhaps, hyenas...
...comedy jungle, where Robin Williams is a big silverback ape and Jon Stewart a sneaky hyena, Flight of the Conchords are tiny fawns. Their whimsical acoustic-guitar songs and gentle banter totter out on spindly legs to nibble at funny bones. The duo, who claim to be the "fourth most popular folk parodists in New Zealand," sing about the usual stuff--mistaken identity, killer robots, racist dragons--but with an earnest, blinking naiveté. It's a hemisphere away from the witty social commentary that reigns on America's comedy circuit. "I guess we're kind of nerdy hipsters," says Bret...