Word: hyena
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...species represented on the walls of the Chauvet cave, as it has already been named, had never before been seen in prehistoric artwork: an owl engraved in rock and a panther depicted in red pigment. The image of a hyena, also painted in red, is only the second one discovered in Stone Age caves...
...voices are extremely well-chosen. Whoopi Goldberg makes a great hyena, and Robert Guillaume a hilarious baboon/mystic. James Earl Jones has the true vocal chords of a king (and hey, we're used to hearing his disembodied voice). Even the lesser-known voices seem to fit their characters well, except, unfortunately, for the adult Simba's tones. Somehow, Matthew Broderick just doesn't remind the average viewer of a powerful lion king...
...work with the mentally ill are especially concerned about the misinformation spread by the jokes and casual use of medical terms. When TIME uses the word schizophrenic to describe internal conflict within the Republican Party, the metaphor perpetuates a misunderstanding, as does a New York Times article describing the hyena's laughlike calls as "psychotic in pitch." Schizophrenia, a brain disorder whose symptoms can include hearing voices, has nothing to do with multiple or "split" personalities. Psychotic refers to a period of severe, treatable and often terrifying disorientation...
...Bears. 10 Brookline St., Cambridge. 492-0082. Thinking Fellers Local Union #282, Sun City Girls, and Cul DeSac on Thursday, Nov. 5 (18+). Laughing Hyena, Smack Mellon, Spore, and Gaunt on Friday, Nov. 63. Olivz, Disco King, Riley's Field, and Falling August on Saturday, Nov. 7. P>Boy Meets Girls. Dress to impress. Cash bar. Sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Korean Student Association. Boston Marriott in Cambridge located at the Kendall Square T. Friday, Nov. 6 from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. $10 at the door; $8 in advance...
...moment when an 82-year-old man with Alzheimer's disease was abandoned at the dog track in Post Falls, Idaho, last March. A cautionary scene -- and it turned into a morning talk-show joke: "It's dog-track time for you, doofus!" the host with hyena cackle, whooping and snorting, tells someone. The sense of the Ik within American society, an uncaring, a messy, stupid license gone out of control, gives some plausibility to Republican rhetoric on the subject...