Word: pawing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tarmac to meet the plane. The Denver Zoo had trumpeted the airborne ape's arrival as part of a publicity blitz for the July 30 opening of its Primate Panorama, which will house 200 animals on seven nature-like acres. Denver isn't alone in putting its best paw forward to lure more visitors. Attendance at the nation's animal houses has posted meager gains of late, as rival amusements have drawn customers away. So zoos are stressing such celebrity attractions as gorillas and bears. "They are putting their star animals on pedestals," says zoo consultant Scott Schultz. The strategy...
When a racehorse appeared, Carter got the owner to sign. When TIME ran a photo of a basset hound, Carter went to a kennel and took a paw print. In 1958, when seven Democratic presidential hopefuls, including Lyndon Johnson, John F. Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson, turned up on the cover together, Carter got to all of them. Harry Truman signed three times, giving Carter good-humored hell for having built his collection on "such a prejudiced, pragmatic and purblind publication as TIME...
...generations past. Nothing is without a cost, and in this case payment is exacted in lives with more "quantity" but not necessarily better "quality." Reverence for life must find balance with human compassion to ensure the dignity that each of us should be allowed in dying. MELISSA QUADE Paw Paw, Michigan Via E-mail
...half-hour chat show with a single guest, he uses it with irony, as a mirror to check how very fabulous he looks. Or, after the guest has uttered some mild inanity, Kinnear stares ahead mutely, as if he'd just been whacked on the skull by a bear paw but is too stoic to wince. It's this bland poise that keeps him from blinking when film stardom stares him in the face...
DIED. ARTHUR KROPP, 37, president of the liberal lobbying group People for the American Way; from AIDS; in Washington. Kropp went to work for TV producer Norman Lear's organization -- a direct response to Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority -- in 1984. PAW's ranks swelled to 300,000 during Kropp's tenure as it weighed in against Robert Bork and the "flag-burning amendment"-and for gay rights and free speech...