Word: squirrels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ranging from the carefree chirit, a long-bodied squirrel that moves by hunching its body inchworm-style, to the flooer, whose large pinkish ears mimic a flower to attract edible bees, Dixon's future zoo may suggest an imagination gone wild. But he is talking about a period 50 million years from now. And nature, the great experimenter, has already created creatures just as outrageous. -By Peter Stoler
...mystery which surrounds her." About the only good thing Cole has to say about the creature is culled from the continental reporter Labouchere, who noted that cats became a gourmet item during the 1870 siege of Paris. Their flavor, he recorded, is "something between a rabbit and a squirrel, with a flavor of its own. It is delicious. Don't drown your kittens. Eat them." Publishing industry sources would not confirm rumors that a book of recipes is being hurried into print...
...explain that. I flew out to L.A. for the Fourth of July weekend to attend a wedding. Now, I have to admit, I am what people out West like to call an Eastern Bastard: I don't know how to ride a horse, I've never shot a ground squirrel, and I think Mount Washington is a big mountain. I've lived most of my life right around Boston. I was born in Madison, Wisconsin, but Madison is really nothing more than an island of East in the vast sea of the Midwest. And the last time I saw California...
...were really poor then. Sounds funny to say it. We didn't know it then. But sitting at Harvard, surrounded by all this affluence, you realize no one here thinks of eating road kills. But that is what we ate. And my dad would go out and shoot squirrels. Now I walk around and see also those fat squirrels scampering about and I think hmmm," she says, cocking her head and peering at an imaginary squirrel...
...PAINTINGS--some of which contain more than 50 two-inch figures--literally ravish the eye. They are brilliant in their color, striking in their design and almost unreal in their detail. The court-commissioned artists, the catalogue tells us, fashioned their brushes from squirrel and kitten hairs. They worked for days on a single figure. The paintings are illuminated book plates; even on such a scale, they are subtler than works 30 times their size. Among the rocks and the sky hide contorted faces, tiny animals and endless innuendo. Welch, who's done work in the field for more than...