Word: otterness
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...Concern for the sea otter and the bald cagle is not misplaced. Traditional conversationists, deeply protective of a vanishing magnificent natural environment, serve a valuable purpose in the struggle to improve the quality of life. Concern for the air, the water, the land-the preservation and protection of beautiful scenery-adds valuable opposition to the campaigns of business to carve up the American wilderness into profitable industrial squalor...
Once aboard, Darwin proved immensely industrious. He climbed volcanoes and was shaken by earthquakes. He brooded upon such things as the social organization of army ants. He learned that the Fuegians ate their women in a hard winter (instead of their dogs, which could catch otter). Like a great artist, he was half child, half sage. Nothing, from tiny bugs to the giant fossilized Megatherium, was too small or great to stir his delight. He saw not only the kinship of beasts with man but the kinship of man with the beasts...
...front and miniature black bow tie), and of the '40s, with Givenchy's languorous silver-fox coat. Saint Laurent goes way back: "It's 1890," he says of his patchwork evening dress with leg-of-mutton sleeves. He does not say which year inspired his black otter coat, appliqued on the back with a Somalia panther skin; whenever it was, the panther apparently had a bad time of it; he looks properly appalled at his fate...
...SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN and RING OF BRIGHT WATER. Both films deal with happy obsessions. The first revolves around a Canadian youth's fascination with the solitude of the Laurentian mountains. The second concerns a Londoner's affection for an otter. Both are children's films, but adults will also find them charming...
...BRIGHT WATER. These two children's films are distinguished by their lack of coyness and a singleminded refusal to condescend to their audience. Mountain concerns a Canadian lad who runs off to the woods, and Ring tells the sprightly tale of a London accountant and his pet otter...