Word: angora
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loom in one hand and a nervous-looking rabbit in the other. Just then the Soviet silver-medal ice-dancing team of Sergei Ponomarenko and Marina Klimova materialized by the happiest chance. Hastening up to them, Newsted explained through a handy interpreter that she was a weaver of Angora fur and had been so taken with Ponomarenko and Klimova's performance that two of her rabbits now bore their names. In fact, here in her arms was Benjamin Sergei. It is difficult to describe the Soviet's expression, other than to say Ponomarenko blinked like a rabbit before smiling. "Thank...
...smocks or T shirts, and make rounds of wards. Retirement and nursing homes are welcoming pets too. The Tacoma Lutheran Home in Washington boasts a menagerie of furry and feathery live-ins. Some have aided in physical therapy. A stroke patient who had lost motor skills groomed an Angora rabbit; another worked on speech problems by talking to a cockatiel...
...adolescent enthusiasm that has been stifled in her mid-life soul. Every mundane moment is suddenly precious: breakfast with her parents and kid sister, singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" in homeroom, catching Dick Clark on the old American Bandstand ("That man never ages!"). She dotes on her angora sweaters and her Iron- Maidenform bras, her mom's Rice Krispies cookies and tremulous advice ("Peggy, you know what a penis is -- stay away from it!"). She enjoys vamping Michael the beatnik, sharing a joint in a moonlit meadow as he howls out his Ginsbergian verse ("Sucking pods of bitterness...
Women have a little more flexibility, depending whom they want to be taken for. Angora sweater, tight skirt, colored nylons and pumps the Screaming Wellesley. Useful only if you want six slobbering moustaches in leather jackets and open shirts crooning. "We sure is from Harvard" as their breath corrodes your makeup. On a weekend, looking like you're almost off to a party provides a useful excuse to disengage from the lovestruck Lothario trying to stuff his phone number down your décolletage ("Excuse me, I'm expected at the party the football team is throwing"). Another weekend option...
...looks like a zookeeper's prank: a goat dressed in a sweater of angora. But the odd-looking creature that appeared on the cover of the journal Nature last week is no joke. The animal is a crossbreed of two entirely different species, a goat and a sheep. Inevitably, it has been dubbed a geep...