Word: boar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...materialize out of the dusk -- a striped vision of might and mystery. Emerging from a thicket in southern India's Nagarahole National Park, the Bengal tigress is hungry and ready to begin another night's hunt. To nourish her 500-lb. body, she must kill a sambar deer, a boar or some other big animal every week of her adult life. Fortunately for her, Nature has given tigers the prowess to prey upon creatures far larger than the cats are. Her massive shoulders and forelimbs can grip and bring down a gaur, a wild, oxlike animal that may weigh more...
...missed is Jacob Jordaens's amusing genre scene of a corpulent "Married With Children" type family entitled As the Old Ones Sing, So the Young Ones Pipe (1640-45). Also impressive are Van Dyck's stately, sweeping Portrait of the Marchesa Elena Grimaldi, and the massive, sixteen-foot Boar Hunt by Frans Snyders...
...skits are an exception. The Winter Dinner is Kirkland spirit at its zenith. The dining hall, lit by candles, is the scene of a fife and drum procession. Students carry a fake boar's head while accompanying the corps...on kazoo...
...simple to the sophisticated: food, music, gambling and sex top the list in the Latin-Catholic south; hunting, fishing and sex (remember Jimmy Swaggart?) tend to predominate in the Protestant north. Former Governor Earl K. Long managed to touch most of those bases: he loved nothing better than boar hunting and horse racing, and he ended his life in a steamy affair with a New Orleans stripper named Blaze Starr. Ex-Governor Edwin Edwards, who revels in his image as a womanizer and gambler, once boasted that the only thing that could lose him an election was being caught...
...fewer than 500 Penans live in the forest. When they settle into towns, their expertise in the ways of the forest slips away. Villagers know that their elders used to watch for the appearance of a certain butterfly, which always seemed to herald the arrival of a herd of boar and the promise of good hunting. These days, most of the Penans cannot remember which butterfly to look...