Word: loring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neighbor on the tree of life, but neither has found the neighborhood entirely respectable. For man, that hairy presence stands just too close for comfort; outside the chimp cage at the zoo, the human observer begins to wonder uneasily who is amusing whom. In this illustrated primer of primate lore by Desmond Morris, curator of mammals at the London Zoo, and his wife Ramona, the sympathy of the authors is placed solidly behind the bars...
BORN FREE. Fine photography displaces some of the African lore in Joy Adamson's delightful book about the taming and untaming of Elsa the lioness, and this filmed biography glows with dusty golden beauty, the lion's share of it supplied by the big cats themselves...
BORN FREE. Fine photography displaces some of the African lore in Joy Adamson's delightful book about the taming and untaming of Elsa the lioness, and this filmed biography glows with dusty golden beauty, the lion's share of it supplied by the big cats themselves...
...toilsome chore of untaming their pampered playmate gives the movie tension, much of it spelled out in pictures more than equal to the rich lion lore contained in the book. In one sequence, an embarrassed Elsa is bullied by a small wart hog, and still cannot understand that she will soon have to kill in order to survive. Later, she lies yawning atop the Land Rover, unmoved by a young bachelor lion laying under a tree. Before Elsa mates successfully, reports the surrogate Mrs. Adamson, "we suffered all the agony of parents whose teen-age daughter...
...LORE GRISHMAN Hyde Park...