Word: tarantulas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...James Willwerth befriended Kito for this week's Living story on the renaissance of the American zoo. Over the course of eight weeks Willwerth petted a walrus in Tacoma, walked ankle deep in freezing snow in the company of several hundred penguins in San Diego and held (gingerly) a tarantula in Cincinnati...
...enough. It was time to go to bed." But before turning in, he made up his mind to develop the last photographic plate. Lifting the plate from the developing tank, he scrutinized it, then stopped short. There, near a feature within the LMC known as 30 Doradus, or the Tarantula nebula, was an unfamiliar bright spot...
...hero "became a man, alone, facing an urban wilderness." A more precise definition of the breed came naturally enough from Chandler, the American-born, British-educated creator of Philip Marlowe, the detective who got more similes to the mile than anybody before or since ("as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food"). Laid down in his essay The Simple Art of Murder, Chandler's description of the fictional American detective has the power of an ecclesiastical oath: "He is a relatively poor man, or he would not be a detective at all. He is a common...
...salary, which isn't much," he explained, "and then you try to do something else to earn some real money. Every circus is like that." In Judkins' case, this means driving a tractor trailer packed with anacondas, boa constrictors and pythons, as well as the odd tarantula, and sleeping in it too. At each town, he opens his establishment on the midway and charges people 75 cents to view his creatures. It is not exactly what he had in mind when he was majoring in psychology and political science, but apparently he has found what...
Layton grew so fond of the place and play he set up house there. Layton: "Stop right there! What are you up there? Ninety, 70 people, and I saw four of you move. Short of a tarantula, you will not move-and you will have to show me the tarantula later...