Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...endorsed a strong slate of five candidates, including incumbents Francis H. Duehay '55, State Rep. Saundra Graham (D-Cambridge). David E. Sullivan, David A. Wylie and challenger Alice Wolf. All have committed themselves to continuing the goals of the association's platform...
...story of Never Cry Wolf, from Farley Mowat's best-selling autobiographical account, seems to beg for such treatment. A young biologist (Charles Marin Smith) dispatched by the Canadian government to the wilds of Alaska to monitor the depletion of Caribou herds at the fangs of wolves, finds that these predators don't conform at all to the fearsome image of snarling savagery--they're actually peace-loving, good-natured animals...
Make no mistake, Never Cry Wolf is a Disney production and does have gamboling wolf pups, but director Carroll Ballard does not dish out family-restaurant-sized portions of easily-digestible nature. Instead, he treats his subject in a startlingly cool manner, devoid of treacly sentiment but shot through with a quiet, mystical passion, as in his magical The Black Stallion. Intensely beautiful images unfold one after the other, invoking that rarest of sensations nowadays un-pre-packaged wonder...
...from being the principal actors, the wolves are only part of the larger tapestry of nature, and Never Cry Wolf becomes a chronicle of self rather than scientific discovery. Mowat's point, that wolves provide a necessary service by killing off the old, weak and diseased members of the caribou herds, is anchored in an intense awareness of the interrelatedness of all things in nature--a perception from which man has unfortunately separated himself from many superimposed layers of civilization...
...whimsy have a more adult flavor than usual. The film's wry humor rises to considerable heights when Mowat, attempting to gain the trust and respect of the wolves, marks his territory with many teapots and several hours worth or urination--a process which takes the head or alpha-wolf George only two brief minutes...