Word: boar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...irascible Viennese mother. Mama believed she had gone below < her station in the polyglot provinces of the Bukovina. Father was sexually unfaithful to her and volcanic in temper; an anti-Semite who despised Nazis as Untermenschen; a watercolorist, photographer and architectural historian whose diversions included dragging a dead wild boar through the hall and up the stairs in the course of a soiree. Above all, Baron von Rezzori was an obsessive hunter, whose profound and almost mystical relation with the woods and the etiquette of the chase would mark his son for life. Finally there were the beloved Other...
Guests can choose a hunting safari for wild boar, goats or pheasant on the slopes of Mauna Kea ($550 for the first person, $200 each for the next three). The game will be dressed and served for dinner that night, or shipped home upon request. Or deep-sea fishing on a luxury yacht ($1,380 for up to six people), Formula Ford race-car driving (not available until April), a day in the saddle with the paniolos (Hawaiian cowboys) of the vast Kahua Ranch ($1,460 for four) or dinner at the Hulihee Palace, former home of the Hawaiian royalty...
...singled out the Fly not out of random maliciousness but because our resources and energies are both limited. Also please note that it is rather difficult to design a group name that denotes the effective demolition of creatures ranging from a boar (the Porcellian) to a fly. What can I say? Slogans will be slogans...
...high while across the world their island was being laid waste by Hurricane Gilbert. They continue at the Han River festival, where an American pulls off a major upset in an ineffable local version of bingo, in an area in which ruddy-faced stallkeepers wave customers toward pungent wild-boar barbecues, and the only signs in English say DRAFT BEER. And they reach their climax at the buffet breakfast in the Intercontinental Hotel, where they catch a glimpse of Florence Griffith Joyner spooning down her cereal (the Breakfast of Champions, no doubt...
...main island of Hawaii offers luxury accommodations for $195 to $375 a night. For $325 extra, guests can train for a day under a professional driver, then suit up for a mock Grand Prix auto race along the coastline. Those who seek Hemingway-style adventures can hunt wild Russian boar and Longhorn bull on an island safari...