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Show C-9 The Park Record Weq/Thurs/f-ri, September 28-30, 2005 An honest take on a tough land or a threat, and cold is a given. Consider an early description of the Arctic night, narrated by his semi-aulobiographivcal hero, Cutuk Hawcly: "The walls of blackness grew and leaned close over my head and joined. An icy cast breeze thinned the smoke. The night cold was a monster now, merciless, pinching my face with pliers, sneaking fingers under my parka." But Culuk knows no other world. His taciturn artist father whisked his family away from the "everything-wanters" of his native Chicago further back than Culuk s memory reaches. In Alaska, they've carved out a spartan life in an igloo, a day from By PATRICK FARRELL High Country News In his debut novel. Ordinary Wolves, Seth Kaniner has woven a world where hunger, death and beauty go hand-in-hand. The book is set almost enlirely on Kan trier's native Alaskan tundra, but don't expect naturalist hyperbole. There are no splendid sweeping landscapes, big animals are either food the nearest village. As the story crunches through the realities of remote northern life - tips on skinning and cooking northern wildlife abound - Cutuk falls victim to teen angst. Clad in traditional mukluk boots, he's desperately unhip compared to the local Eskimo teens, who cat canned soup and wear jeans. He makes social inroads, joining in beer-soaked Lysol-huffing partics and scoring his first wolf kill. But it leaves him empty inside, perhaps because his coming of age is paralleled by the unrelenting creep of industrial society into his icy h o m e "Snowgos" overtake sled dogs, and his friends and siblings heed the call of the city, drifting south to Anchorage. Cutuk joins them, but is soon dreaming of home, where the snow is never black with soot. Cutuk's lost innocence carries the book forward, but the strength of Kantner?s novel is his unvarnished take on life and the people of a tough land. This is an authentic tale from one of the last wild and irony-free American places, where wolf-hunters and environmentalists not only get along, but often share the same skin. High Country News (www.hcn.org) covers the West's communities and natural-resource issues from Paonia, Colorado. Book examines the female form scientifically ladies. While humans have generally shed most body hair as they evolved, head hair remained as a visual display, Morris says. So it should come as no surprise, he writes, that "it has been shown off, concealed, styled, cut, trimmed, (AP) From top to toe, human extended, straightened, waved, put observer Desmond Morris takes on up, let down, colored and decorated a subject that has fascinated in a thousand ways." mankind for millenniums in his new Hair has been everything from book, '"The Naked Woman." woman's crowning glory to the A zoologist who became famous source of religious taboos. for his observations on humankind Of particular note was the "big in his 1967 book "The Naked Ape," hair" look popular in the South in Morris has produced more than 40 the 1980s, which he calls "extrovert volumes, studying people, dogs, cats and cheerfully assertive." and horses, and how they behave. Moving to the other extreme, But people, and especially their Morris observes that women have playfulness, are what fascinate him suffered during the years in an effort most, and it shows as he proceeds to have feet that appear ultrafemifrom hair to foot to observe the nine and daintv. "Their feet have been squeezed, squashed, cramped and crushed in pursuit of small-foot beauty," he writes. Three devices have been used to this end: shoes too tight, to make feet look smaller; shoes too pointed, to make feet look streamlined; and shoes with high heels, to make feet look shorter. In between head and foot. Morris has something to say about virtually every body part, some of which is belter left out of the family newspaper. Suffice it to say that, in a discussion of piercing and ornamentation, he observes: "As potential areas for body decoration the buttocks provide little scope. They are too private for displaying the handiwork and too sat-upon for the attachment of ornaments." Other Morris observations: •Female hands are superior to male hands in one important way - they are more flexible. •Politicians have generally kept out of matters of beauty, but at one peint in 18th-century England they felt the need to pass a law against lip coloring because some males feared they would be lured into wedlock by the sight of red-lipped women. •While men in Western nations tend to regard the female neck merely as something to support her head, in Japan, the back of a woman's neck is considered one of her most sexually tantalizing features. "The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body." By Desmond Morris. 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