Word: constrictors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rock groups were scheduled to play during the afternoon in the Common, but they didn't show up. All was not lost, however, as the Zoomobile from the Boston Zoological Society arrived with a complement of 15 captives, ranging from a four-horn sheep to a six-foot boa constrictor...
...discovery" and subtly prods the children to teach one another. To act out childhood fantasies, they create weird costumes and run off in them to Central Park, where, as one student wrote in his daily journal, he simply "spied on people." One classroom contains eight doves, a skink, boa constrictor, canary, goldfish, turtles and families of gerbils and mice. The mating habits of a pair of doves, Hawk and Paloma, led to a highly explicit discussion of reproduction, all duly recorded in a scrapbook labeled the "Dove Book." The animals provide a common community of interest-and creating a community...
Kopit's play turned horror into humor by reducing characters to costumes -easy to laugh at a son being swallowed if the mother is just a feather-boa constrictor. Richard Quine's film turns yocks into rocks by trying to discover immortal souls under the plastic spangles-hard to laugh at a farce that opens with a prologue in heaven. Quine & Co. kept their cinematic corpse on ice for more than a year while they tried to decide what to do with it. They should have stuffed...
...purpose. As months passed, however, his wife became more and more distressed, for he did nothing all day but play with his smipe. He neglected his children, never went to work, and dressed in a slovenly manner. Finally, driven to desperation by his inattention, the wife bought a boa constrictor and put it in his bed one night. "There!" she cried in fiendish glee as the snake wrapped its coils tightly about his chest, and the life fled from his body...
...understandable collector's items are such handsome felines as house-cat-size margays, ocelots and cheetahs-Oregon Sportsman John S. Day, 55, uses his cheetah, Mike, for hunting and exercise. Exotic animals can be habit-forming. Jeri Hines, a Los Angeles divorcee with three children, bought a boa constrictor a couple of years ago. Since then, she has acquired an alligator, an aquatic toad, a green iguana and a tire eel, and has had to move to a new district because none of her neighbors would let their children into her house...