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(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. STEWART: But, when the zookeeper's standing right there, and he doesn't say bad monkey ...
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(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. STEWART: But, when the zookeeper's standing right there, and he doesn't say bad monkey ...
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(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. STEWART: But, when the zookeeper's standing right there, and he doesn't say bad monkey ...
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Yet this phrase which he uses, "completely in the moment" emerges to my feeble mind as a euphemism for the fact that she is in a state of captivity; the zookeeper's Pop metaphysics bring me back to the moral, and thus, structural dilemma: she is not in-the-moment so much as she is in a cage, and this simple fact is what lingers, even after his confession about "all zookeepers bearing the taint of guilt".
Michael Vazquez: On Nénette Michael Vazquez 2011
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(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. STEWART: But, when the zookeeper's standing right there, and he doesn't say bad monkey ...
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The giraffes were the cat's whiskers, so to speak; they all adopted a languid and world-weary style when they were talking to Johnny as he came calling in his zookeeper's cap, but you could tell that they were secretly delighted when he dropped in for a chat.
I've a bone to pick with David Attenborough | Kevin McKenna 2011
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(Soundbite of laughter) Mr. STEWART: But, when the zookeeper's standing right there, and he doesn't say bad monkey ...
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Yet this phrase which he uses, "completely in the moment" emerges to my feeble mind as a euphemism for the fact that she is in a state of captivity; the zookeeper's Pop metaphysics bring me back to the moral, and thus, structural dilemma: she is not in-the-moment so much as she is in a cage, and this simple fact is what lingers, even after his confession about "all zookeepers bearing the taint of guilt".
Michael Vazquez: On Nénette Michael Vazquez 2011
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A zookeeper's chores are a lot more involved than, say, scooping kitty litter, but they also get the reward of being with the animals.
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The Blank Park Zoo opened in 1986, run along more modern lines, and the only trace of Mr. Elgin's eccentric vision is Barnaby the tortoise, who still lives at the zoo, his shiny shell a reminder of an era when a zookeeper's idiosyncratic vision reigned.
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