Word: raccoon
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...late 1984, after spending two years in the Navy and eight years in Someville, the Sicilian native borrowed some money and bought a languishing raccoon-infested house on Harvard Street...
...pages? "We've given her the Vogue makeover," says editor Anna Wintour. "Whether she's going to follow it, I don't know." Meanwhile, some would make over Wintour. While lunching at New York City's haute Four Seasons, she was approached by a woman who flung a dead raccoon on her plate and screamed, "Anna wears fur hats!" The activist then fled, and an unrepentant Wintour calmly said to a tablemate, "Merry Christmas...
...Amalgamated Potato and find an envelope on your desk with the CEO's name in the upper-left corner, and you sit down and draw a deep breath. After 22 years working your way up through the Skin Division, you are about to become road kill, one more confused raccoon smeared across the corporate highway...
...still miss the main point. Yes, the Indians are very nice people here, which is a nice thing. And yes, the real Pocahontas probably didn't have Tina Turner's posture and Iman's neck. She probably didn't sing Broadway-style songs either or talk to a clever raccoon and a persnickety hummingbird. Maybe John Smith didn't look like Fabio and sound like Mel Gibson (who speaks the role). But this is a movie-a cartoon, for goodness' sake! It is a boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl story whose plot is familiar in every...
...what it depicts as the last age of innocence. The lovers Pocahontas (voiced by Irene Bedard) and John Smith are from a gentler, more serious movie era; and so, to its credit, is this film. The picture has its light moments and patentedly adorable characters, notably Meeko the raccoon, a most fastidious glutton with a lot of personality. But Pocahontas lacks the menagerie of cuties that filled The Little Mermaid and The Lion King, and the absence must be intentional. For this is an animated film for adults who have a touch of the moony adolescent in them. The movie...