REFEREE EXPLAINS BALL PLACEMENT: Bob McElwee, the head official in New England's 33-30 comeback victory over the Chicago Bears, explained yesterday that he had to estimate whether the Patriots made a first down in the final minute because the ball had been moved before he could bring in the chains to measure.
The rest of the plot, which has to do with Vanity's resisting gangland pressure to play rotten videos in her dance club, is too idiotic to bear explaining.
"Really, the only thing worse than killing a bear is explaining why you didn't kill the bear that killed a 3-year-old child".
(At one point it's as if every item in the Japanese Sanrio line of toys has come to life.) The cultural weight that the picture bears partly explains why this was the biggest hit ever in Japan, outpacing "Titanic".
Having to re-cage rescued bears, she explains, risks re-activating the symptoms of their trauma, and all "because of a decision that has not one shred of morality behind it".
The best models for each bear species explained modest amounts of variation in sign occurrence, suggesting that bears selected additional attributes that we did not measure, or that our measurements were coarse.
Now called Salon Eva Per?nd open to the public, the room bears a plaque explaining its importance, contains a bust of Eva Per?and has retained its original furnishings.
Our guides, Harry and Brigid Dodge, didn't seem overly concerned about the close call; it was a young female bear, they explained later, maybe 3 or 4 years old, curious and scared, but with easy escape paths and no food cache to protect.
Named Cher Bear, she stands at the fence line and sways back and forth for hours on end, as if confined in a tight cage, which the bear attendant explains had been her fate in Ohio before being let loose in Bearizona.
"The smaller creatures are obviously less fabulous – a warthog is less fabulous than a bear," George explains.
