Word: raccoons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People milled around the graves, rearranging plastic flowers, recalling triumphs of the deceased. A lot of Old Blues went down into the ground here, as well as a lot of Old Reds. The headstone for Blue Kate said STRUCK BY CAR , WHILE RUNNING A RACCOON. IN SIX YEARS OF OWNERSHIP TREED MORE THAN 200. The stone for Rusty said A COON DOG INDEED with the qualifier underscored twice...
...other direction that a sea piece by any Boston dauber distantly connectable to Fitz Hugh Lane will command a price that not so long ago would have seemed too much for Turner. No vignette, however treacly, of apple-cheeked infants at the log schoolhouse or hirsute pioneers skinning the raccoon eludes the general resurrection. No grave of a deservedly buried name remains undug...
Nevertheless, the Great Communicator did not stint on personal details. His diet is light and lean (except for tacos at lunch on Thursday) if not quite salt-free: "I mean, you'd have to be a raccoon or something to eat a hard-boiled egg without salt, but I use very little." He no longer body surfs, but still performs backflips into the pool "to show off for Nancy." By working out with weights and treadmill for 25 minutes every evening in his White House exercise room, he has gained 5 Ibs. ("muscle is heavier than fat") and added...
...make the trip in an hour and 45 minutes in 14-seater, heated planes that flew daily from Boston to New York. Even Santa "pastured his reindeer and ordered a monoplane for his deliveries," according to Rollo airlines. They claimed that the merry old soul had "gone modern." A raccoon coat could provide an extra layer of warmth on those journeys...
...results of human artifice are one thing, the effects of nature are another. A raccoon's coat is natural, a raccoon coat is not. Hair grows naturally on the human head, but its naturalness vanishes the instant it is groomed with comb, brush, scissors or curlers. The term natural, in its strictest sense, should not be applied to anything contrived or even changed by man. Some philosophers, to be sure, encourage a soupy sort of reductionism. "Nature who made the mason, made the house," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. That notion is nonsense. It is plain as rain that people...