Word: pets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know an autobiography is in trouble when its best chapter -- funny, intimate, emotionally engaged -- is about the pet raccoon the author loved and lost decades ago. You know a biography is in trouble when sentences like this start popping up: "From the comfort of his foreplay to his gentle whispers, he gave something that was almost at one with female consciousness." Could we see a footnote on that...
...same problems that the pioneers faced, such as how much food to carry. The Cruncher, from Davidson, has a practical aim: it introduces kids to spreadsheets and accounting principles by asking them to figure out the full cost of activities such as planning a vacation or owning a pet. Microsoft's Dinosaurs brings the beasts back to life in gripping detail that includes the tyrannosaur's roar and its victim's howls. There's even a Software Toolworks program called Capitol Hill for congressional wannabes who yearn to vote and answer constituent mail...
...then there was the Great Snake Bust. Snake poaching is a multimillion- dollar industry, in which poachers sell skins and live specimens to pet shops and private collectors through shady mail-order houses. So bad is the problem that scientists studying a recent plague of rats in some communities surrounding Texas' Big Bend National Park came to a startling conclusion: the problem resulted from the absence of their scaly natural predators, which had been nearly poached...
...picked Shake, Rattle and Rock; Ralph Bakshi (Fritz the Cat) selected Cool and the Crazy; Joe Dante (Gremlins) chose Runaway Daughters; Uli Edel (Last Exit to Brooklyn) took Confessions of a Sorority Girl; William Friedkin (The Exorcist) got Jailbreakers; Jonathan Kaplan (The Accused) chose Reform School Girl; Mary Lambert (Pet Sematary) took Dragstrip Girl; John McNaughton (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer) opted for Girls in Prison; John Milius (Conan the Barbarian) chose Motorcycle Gang. The only youngster, 25-year-old Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi), got Roadracers...
...comic, 32, has been having too good a time lately to search for the Inner Jim. And so has anyone who has seen Carrey inhabit dozens of roles on Fox's prime-time skitcom In Living Color or commandeer the big screen in last winter's smash Ace Ventura Pet Detective. That rowdy farce, cagily directed by Tom Shadyac, earned $72 million at the domestic box office. Coupled with big expectations for Carrey's new fantasy-comedy The Mask, it kicked the actor's price from $750,000 to $7.5 million for headlining Dumb and Dumber, due early next year...