Word: pandas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recognized laugh since Santa Claus first ho-ho-hoed -- an enduring, if somewhat annoying, piece of Americana. Lantz, known more for his craftsmanship than his originality, ran his own animation studio by the late 1920s, where he produced the first Technicolor cartoon and a host of characters like Andy Panda and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. None came close to the success of Woody Woodpecker, who first hit the screen in 1940. Lantz reveled in the probably apocryphal tale of a woodpecker who disturbed his honeymoon but inspired his best-known creation. (Mrs. Lantz was Woody's voice for most...
...truth, I think, is that Americans love marriage too much. We rush into marriage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on Earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses and hopes. In fact, we made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we loved it to death...
...rendezvous on the imperial duck-hunting grounds. All the while, secrecy was an obsession. But one short exchange shows that the young pair were establishing intimacy and rapport. After some nervous discussion about avoiding the press, Masako- san joked to Naruhito, "Perhaps I should get dressed up in a panda suit." Some panda...
...small hollows on the top. The rock has marks from heavy use for some purpose. "If an anthropologist came upon this in the forest," says Boesch, "he might think he had found a human artifact." Instead, it is used by chimpanzees for nut cracking. The chimps place a panda nut in one of the depressions and then smash it with a smaller stone. Boesch has watched a mother chimp instruct her young in the art of nut cracking...
...EASY TO CONNECT people to the Panda or the American Eagle. The important thing is that we expand our circle of awareness and affection and love for the rest of organisms. We're beginning to have some affection for and concern for the fate of frog species and salamander species. In Europe already, the public is increasingly concerned about butterflies, beetles and the like. I don't mean to say that one will ever consider the giant American Burying beetle, which lives on the decaying corpses of rats and mice, as a cuddly organism like the panda. Nonetheless, there...