Word: taxidermist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smugglers & Taxidermists. On and on it went, from state Governors down to civil servants. The Governor of Amazonas state was found to have staked out a huge ranch along the banks of the Amazon, added an airstrip, dock and warehouse, and used it to run up a whirlwind trade in smuggled goods. Another former state Governor coolly pocketed an entire $6,400,000 highway appropriation, once appointed 600 men to the single post of state taxidermist-enough to stuff every man, woman and child in his state. Then there was the former president of Brazil's state savings banks...
...shot by Sportswriter Charles Parmiter, who was exploring the rugged hunting and fishing possibilities in Costa Rica's jungle (see SPORT). At the time, he thought he was bagging a jaguar. Back in New York, a taxidermist told him it was an ocelot. Well, it could happen to any sportswriter...
...models up from the skeleton. Though his sculptures are on a tabletop scale, they make picturesque heroes out of wild animals, emphasizing their surging power and proud cruelty in a way that artists have never truly bothered to portray since. Other notable animaliers included Christophe Fratin, son of a taxidermist, and Rosa Bonheur, who later mistakenly gave up sculpture for painting...
...friend (in itself an unlikely story) who, we are asked to believe, is a writer of genius by day and an industrious male prostitute by night. Hippolyte and this man of many parts converse. Sample: Hippolyte: "You are a tourist of sensation." Jean-Jacques: "Better than a taxidermist...
...Britannica deals cursorily with the Neanderthals, merely giving their physical characteristics (thickset physiques, sloping foreheads, receding chins) and observing that they were an aberrant strain, extinct 50,000 years ago. With the skill of an artist (and not, as is often the case in attempts of this kind, a taxidermist), Golding re-creates the Neanderthals and the dawn mist in which they lived. To the eye they are stubby, smallish, powerful near apes, covered with reddish fur. But they are dimly intelligent, although their minds do not work like those of Homo sapiens. In addition to the simple tools...