Word: keeper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Camille, a keeper for the zoo's large cats, is poised dangerously between two harsh worlds. Disturbed and lonely, she is treated cruelly by most of her own kind, and is drawn more and more to the large caged cats in her charge. Reality blurs, and she merges her identity with that of a sleek leopard in her care...
...think Clinton must be guilty of something because they know he isn't stupid. Here's a policy wonk well versed in every domestic issue that ever made a Sunday-morning talk show, a politician with near total recall of conversations and events from long ago, a meticulous record keeper capable of itemizing underwear donations to charity. Why, then, are so many vital Whitewater records missing? How is it possible that two respected lawyers like Bill and Hillary Clinton don't possess a paper trail capable of proving their innocence -- unless they're hiding something? How could products...
...They were trying to create women's studies in the belly of the beast. Harvard thinks of itself as the keeper of the culture, and in general, it tends to be fairly conservative about what it lets into the culture," says Susan M. Reverby, professor of women's studies at Wellesley College...
...PROFILE: Keeper of the Straight and Narrow...
...play's inner life is the growing bond between the captive, Keely, and her grandmotherly keeper, Du. Part of the closeness is their natural sympathy as women beleaguered by men. Part is a shared, stereotypically feminine impulse to focus on an individual situation more than an abstract principle. Part, too, is the "Stockholm syndrome" of intimacy between hostage and hostage taker as a way of enduring forced togetherness. The effect is especially strong in this situation because, unlike most hostages, the young woman has no fear of being murdered -- her captors are desperate to keep her alive, if only...