Word: rhinos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hunters have a habit of excusing the rhino's evil temper (he's nearsighted) and the rogue elephant's murderous charge (he probably has a toothache). But hardly anybody has a good word for the shark. On any coastline, the cry "Shark!" is guaranteed to produce 1) instant panic in the local chamber of commerce, and 2) a sudden boom in swimming-pool sales. Sailors blaze away at passing sharks with rifles and shotguns, ichthyologists denounce them as witless garbage disposals, and many a fisherman disgustedly reels in his bait at the first glimpse of a triangular...
...RHINO! African melodrama as it should be done-with scenic splendor and crackling humor-tied to a timely story about a hunt for a pair of rare white rhinos...
...RHINO! In brightest Africa, the hunt for a pair of rare white rhinos triggers a timely, scenic, instructive, and highly entertaining melodrama...
...RHINO! An African hunt for a pair of rare white rhinos triggers a timely, scenic, instructive and highly entertaining melodrama...
...Whether or not it is protocol for a producer to write kind words to a reviewer, I find it impossible not to comment on what you had to say about Rhino! What most producers look for in a review is a critic's discovery of the one element that serves as the producer's raison d'être. You discovered it and commented. I refer to the line, "The animals themselves are examined with wonder and with love...