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Word: toucans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Amazon rain forest, Davi relies on hallucinogenic powders to reach the spirit world, but this leader of the Yanomami Indians also wields a more modern means of communication: a two-way radio. When an otherworldly voice squawks through the speaker, Davi wraps up his shaman's crown of toucan feathers, dons uncomfortable city clothes and walks to a clearing in the forest, where a four-seater plane awaits, propellers revving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Water: DAVI KOPENAWA YANOMAMI: Spirit from the Amazon | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

...order to do this, she had to leave the community in Africa where she had served as a midwife for seven years. Today, she lives in Boston and helps her husband manage their self-owned business. Toucan Chocolates...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, | Title: Radcliffe Grads Struggle to Balance Families, Careers | 6/7/1993 | See Source »

...offers fun along with bargains. The innovative Coral Gables, Fla., firm Arquitectonica designed the mall in a wacky alligator shape, a nice touch considering its location at the edge of the Everglades. The Florida theme extends from the logo, a saw-toothed alligator, to parking-lot markers (a yellow toucan, a pink flamingo, etc.), to a windswept-looking Hurricane Food Court, complete with wind sounds and swirling banners. Shoppers stroll under palmetto trees down four "main streets" with themes ranging from Caribbean to Art Deco. And, for family amusement, miniature golf, roller skating and a movie theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price Is Always Right | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

Indeed, as cut-rate malls turn themselves into theme parks, with frills and flourishes and higher overhead costs, their primary advantage -- lower prices -- just might start to disappear. For now, though, did we leave the car by the talking toucan, or was it the pink flamingo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Price Is Always Right | 12/17/1990 | See Source »

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