Word: varmint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...athlete in school, there can be few tangier pleasures than playing baseball in Bull Durham and Field of Dreams or playing a cowboy in Silverado. Even in the Nitti-gritty Untouchables, where he earned his first star billing as Eliot Ness, Costner got to lead a posse to a varmint's hideout...
...save them. Some conservationists bitterly opposed the capture of the last condors, arguing that pressure to preserve what was left of their habitat would vanish without a resident population. During the winter of 1985, nearly half of the 15 remaining wild birds perished, victims of lead shot, varmint poisons and land development. Two years later, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rounded up the last of the survivors...
Even Bugs Bunny has to hop aside when Brer Rabbit comes by. The big-eared varmint has been a folk hero since early slave days, and his sly outwitting of bullies and bosses is history disguised in fur and interpreted by the victims. Jump Again! (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; $14.95) demonstrates that a classic offers something fresh to each generation. This time it is Van Dyke Parks' riotous retelling and Barry Moser's elegant watercolors. Beneath the new surface, of course, the hero is instantly familiar, once again outmaneuvering Brer Fox, Weasel and Bear, winning the paw of Miss Molly...
...Creek Cattle Co. & Livery Emporium ("GOATS AND DONKEY'S NEITHER BOUGHT NOR SOLD/WE DON'T RENT PIGS"). It isn't that life in town can't be dangerous. One can always fall off a porch, get snakebit picking up a jug or risk Tex-Mex cooking. The recipe for varmint stew: "Whatever the dogs catch. Or the dogs themselves, if they don't manage to catch nothing...
...came and been honored. I fear that a pattern has been established. Instead of denouncing much a trend with hard words. I would like to suggest another way that the Foundation can bring a little Hollywood to Harvard. Why don't they invite Duffy Duck? Oh yea, that little varmint will pack'em in. In addition, he fits the Foundation's criteria for guests: he's black, a celebrity, and no matter what he says no one will be offended. Duffy is irresistible case and will not offer anything even remotely related to race relations. Who could be more ideal...