Word: plotkin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...storyboards, the children's story slowly took on adult themes of mortality and immortality. "It deals with dying and abandonment, issues we all face," says Jeup. "Woody's choice is between his friends and immortality." Everyone had a say about plot and characters. The two female producers, Helene Plotkin and Karen Robert Jackson, insisted on a strong girl character--something lacking in the original. Joan Cusack signed on as the voice of Jessie the Cowgirl and turned the character into a showstopper--one with a lesson for Woody. "She knows what it's like to be abandoned. She's been...
...played before. The people who play have fun, and the people who don't are amused by it. I haven't seen anyone who has been negatively impacted by a little plastic gun," Eugene M. Plotkin '00 said...
...electees are: Sarah E. Clark-Schmidt,Goldstein and Cheryl A. Gray of Adams House;Mulaika Hijjas and Sudhir R. Vora of Cabot House;Gina Petrocelli, Joshua B. Plotkin, Esther T.Riggin and Himani C. Shah of Currier House; DelmaY. Jarrett, Joel B. Pollak and Shirling Tsai ofDunster House; Brian T. Garibaldi, Shalom E. Holtzand Kensaku Kawamoto of Eliot House; Ariel S. Freyand Ilana Kurshan of Kirkland House; Jessica E.Kahan, Gregorios Kranias, Scott B. Lovitch,Sharmil S. Modi and Geoffrey C. Upton of LeverettHouse; Elisa K. Cheng, Ka-Hyeong Lee, Suzanne M.Miller and Markella V. Zanni of Lowell House; MaryM. Berlik, Irene...
...study of plants used by indigenous peoples is called ethnobotany, and Plotkin had been steeped in the subject ever since his college years at Harvard a decade earlier. He had taken a course taught by Richard Evans Schultes, a pioneer ethnobotanist who had spent years in the Amazon rain forest. During the first lecture, Professor Schultes showed a slide of what appeared to be three Indians in grass skirts and bark-cloth masks dancing under the influence of some kind of potion. "The one on the left has a Harvard degree," the professor said, pointing out how far some ethnobotanists...
...Plotkin soon realized that his work could play a role in saving the rain forest. The key was to help persuade indigenous peoples and their governments that they stood to gain more in the long run if they preserved their trees and cultures than if they let timber companies strip the land. The knowledge of the shamans--and the secrets that new generations of shamans might uncover--could be worth a fortune, especially since herbal medicine is booming in developed countries. Interest in medicinal plants is "real sweet right now," Plotkin says. "Indians are potentially the best conservationists out there...