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...Super Bowl commercials. The movie finds its footing once Po stops tripping over things and devotes himself to the exhausting curriculum devised by his master. Shifu's exact species is a matter of some dispute among early reviewers of the film ( Entertainment Weekly describes him as a raccoon, The Seattle Times as a mouse and the McClatchy newspapers as a "tiny red panda"). But no one can debate the power of Hoffman's voice work, or the emotional nuance the creature communicates with the merest twitch of his three-strand beard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kung Fu Panda: Wise Heart, Sweet Art | 6/5/2008 | See Source »

...stank like a raccoon! I could not go to the show like that.' --Marc Jacobs, responding to criticism regarding the late start time of his runway presentation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 11/19/2007 | See Source »

...There are some people who live in Idaho, next to a national park, who've called in: their cats will undoubtedly have been killed by something larger than themselves. They're a delicious snack, for anything from a hawk to a cougar to a raccoon. For [other cat owners,] the No. 1 killer of cats is cars. The average lifespan of an indoor-outdoor cat is seven years. The average lifespan of an indoor cat is 21 years. So that pretty much says it. Outside, you have feral cats carrying disease; you have dogs that attack; you have cars, cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Your Cat Wants You to Know | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

...reportedly made common cause with some of the store owners in complaining that the new rules will increase the quantity and decrease the quality of psychics. In the period between the last public meeting about the statute and its passage, the Salem News reported that someone had left a raccoon skull and intestines in front of two of the stores, a gesture many involved in the controversy seem to think was part of an attempt at "dark magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letting Witches Be Witches in Salem | 8/20/2007 | See Source »

...seems to be on the wane. What are your predictions for the next big puzzle moneymaker?WS: I disagree on Sudoku. Well the craze has waned, just as the crossword craze of 1924-25 has waned. People at the time thought crosswords were another fad like flagpole sitting or raccoon coats...Sudoku is like that. Walking here this morning I passed a homeless man who was lying in the sidewalk leaned up against the building and he had a newspaper open and he was solving a Sudoku and I thought, “Harvard has the smartest homeless people...

Author: By Merav D. Silverman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Will Shortz | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

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