Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were functional images; they were meant to produce results. But what results? To represent something, to capture its image on a wall in colored earths and animal fat, is in some sense to capture and master it; to have power over it. Lascaux is full of nonthreatening animals, including wild cattle, bison and horses, but Chauvet pullulates with dangerous ones-cave bears, a panther and no fewer than 50 woolly rhinos. Such creatures, to paraphrase Claude Lavi-Strauss, were good to think with, not good to eat. We can assume they had a symbolic value, maybe even a religious value...
DIED. GERALD DURRELL, 70, British conservationist and best-selling writer; of complications from a liver transplant; in St. Helier on the Channel island of Jersey. The self- described "champion of small uglies," Durrell founded the Jersey Zoological Park in 1958, where he bred endangered species to return to the wild-a controversial but ultimately effective program. Encouraged by his novelist brother Lawrence, he wrote a series of witty, educational musings on his life's work, such as The Overloaded Ark (1953) and the 1956 memoir My Family and Other Animals...
...first, I thought it was morbid curiosity, but now I'm really worried. My roommate has been watching the O.J. Simpson trial non-stop! He reads everything in the press, listens to all the talk radio, and gets into wild debates in the dining hall with anyone who makes the mistake of sitting next to him. I think he's obsessed. He just told me he wants to splice a cable wire so we can get cable...and Court TV. And worst of all: He thinks O.J. is innocent. I'm scared, Norma, very scared...
When Bobby (Jason Andrews) reveals that he is, "In the hole for thirty large," Ralph immediately focuses his wild energy on helping his friend. His plan--typically hackneyed and illegal--involves copying the keys of rich folks while they dine and later robbing their houses. The film's eventual denouement hinges on the fact that some of the rich men happen to be "Made Guys," top brass in the local...
...best to be found in Thailand. He wants his tiger population to swell to 200 within a couple of years, and has opened a petting area for tiger cubs, which at three months old cuddle like house cats. The nagging question, says Leonie Vejjajiva, a founder of the Wild Animal Rescue Foundation of Thailand, is whether a petting zoo--the feeding costs alone come to $8 a day per animal--and 20,000 crocodiles will generate the kind of money Somphong needs to turn a profit. The suspicion--open or unspoken--is that some of his tigers will wind...