Word: sheep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those who knew Sheldon describe him as a colorful character who once raced cars up Pikes Peak, farmed sheep in Montana and fathered two children in an unsuccessful marriage...
Newt & Co. say they are simply trying to bring reason to federal regulation. They relish citing examples of overzealous enforcement-the sheep rancher who was fined $4,000 for shooting a grizzly bear that was attacking him, or the landowners who were sent to jail for building on "wetlands," a broad term that regulators have applied to property that contains standing water for as little as 11 days in a year...
...subtle, rhyming link to 'ma,' or mother, indicates her mingled defiance and inability to communicate with her putative guardian. Clearly the lamb has failed to find her voice as a small and fuzzy animal. Even though she is disempowered by the human-exalting hierarchy and the oppressive male sheep, she can still express her hostility toward the primal mother-figure represented by Peep...
...knows what he's doing as he attempts to return a briefcase full of funny money to a woman (Lauren Holly) with whom he is smitten. This involves a journey across America with Harry (Jeff Daniels), Lloyd's equally dense roommate, in a truck that looks like a gigantic sheep dog. In order to enjoy the pair's company, adult viewers must regress to those thrilling days of yesteryear when bodily dysfunction represented the height of hilarity. But Carrey (ably abetted here by the woofly Daniels) is both symbol and satirist of our apparently irresistible dumbing down. Astonished attention must...
...plan to bring the species back to the Northern Rockies, but the eight that made it are hardly roaming free. Late Wednesday, a federal appeals court ordered the wolves locked up until at least Friday, when a judge will consider new pleas from ranchers who fear their cattle and sheep will become prey. Wildlife activists worry that the wolves will not fare well for long in their small, two-by-three-by-four-foot travel crates...