Word: raccoons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Denver. It was once a small prairie town of gold rushers and traders, where the biggest scare was getting hit by a prairie dog. Now it's a stretched finger of the big city, with aspiring families who don't lock their doors, enclaves with names like Coventry and Raccoon Creek and Bel Flower, scrubland turned into golf courses, houses than run anywhere from $75,000 to $5 million or so. There's an arch over a hallway in the high school engraved with a motto: "The finest kids in America pass through these halls...
BEAR ESSENTIALS As Web design goes, the Bear Den www.nature-net.com/bears is a tad unsophisticated, but it's a treasure trove of facts on grizzly, brown and black bears and pandas (which, biologists tell us, aren't bears but big cousins of the raccoon). There's plenty of information about easily bearable books, videos and other websites, plus a frighteningly good picture gallery...
Because the legend of the Jackelope only prevails outside the counties of Middlesex and Suffolk, one can assume that the range of first-year Harvard initiations won't include drinking the blood of a freshly killed bobcat or skinning and dressing an unlucky raccoon. Since most cronies of Harvard students will have never stood eye to eye with a grizzly bear, the bold graduate can add distinction to a Chase Manhattan application with bird calling and scat identification skills. Why wait until schmoozing with a client on a Maine hunting lease to accrue tracking abilities when a multitude of outfitters...
...Hasidic Cabalists. This no-budget ($60,000) New York City thriller offers a warning applicable to humans as well as computers: knowledge is a virus. But the real triumph of [Pi] is its sensuous chiaroscuro imagery (cream swirling in coffee, blood dripping from a man's jacket, Max's raccoon eyes after a sleepless night). Aronofsky, who has parlayed this movie's Sundance success into two Hollywood deals, is that rare indie filmmaker who doesn't want to make hip romantic sitcoms. He's a genuine experimenter with a spooky visual style. Max might be speaking for his gifted creator...
Other fashions sweep into style later in the year, especially on college campuses. Big mitts, crew hats and candy stockings were all the rage, while boy-girl look-alikes included twin parkas, sweaters, and raccoon coat dual outfits...