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Bears are mammals of the family Ursidae. Bears are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans, with the pinnipeds being their closest living relatives. Although there are only eight living species of bear, they are widespread, appearing in a wide variety of habitats throughout the Northern Hemisphere and partially in the Southern Hemisphere. Bears are found in the continents of North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.
Common characteristics of modern bears include a large body with stocky legs, a long snout, shaggy hair, plantigrade paws with five nonretractile claws, and a short tail. While the polar bear is mostly carnivorous and the giant panda feeds almost entirely on bamboo, the remaining six species are omnivorous, with largely varied diets including both plants and animals.
With the exceptions of courting individuals and mothers with their young, bears are typically solitary animals. They are generally diurnal, but may be active during the night (nocturnal) or twilight (crepuscular), particularly around humans. Bears are aided by an excellent sense of smell, and despite their heavy build and awkward gait, they can run quickly and are adept climbers and swimmers. In autumn some bear species forage large amounts of fermented fruits which affects their behaviour. Bears use shelters such as caves and burrows as their dens, which are occupied by most species during the winter for a long period of sleep similar to hibernation.
Big is a 1988 romantic comedy film directed by Penny Marshall and stars Tom Hanks as Josh Baskin, a young boy who makes a wish "to be big" to a magical wishing machine and is then aged to adulthood overnight. The film also stars Elizabeth Perkins, and Robert Loggia and was written by Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg.
Big was the latest, and most successful, of a series of age-changing comedies produced in the late 1980s; the others being: Like Father Like Son (1987), 18 Again! (1988), Vice Versa (1988), the Italian film Da grande (1987).
After being told he is too short for a carnival ride while attempting to impress an older girl (Kimberlee M. Davis), 12-year-old Josh Baskin (David Moscow) from Cliffside Park, New Jersey goes to a wishing machine called Zoltar Speaks, and wishes that he was "big." His wish is granted, but he finds out that the machine is unplugged, and backs away. By the next morning he is shocked to discover that he has been transformed into a 30-year-old man (Tom Hanks), and when he goes back to the wishing machine he finds that the carnival has already left. Fleeing from his mother (Mercedes Ruehl), who thinks he is a strange man who has kidnapped her son, Josh then finds his best friend, Billy Kopecki (Jared Rushton), at the school they both attend; Billy is shocked at first, but Josh convinces him of his identity by singing a secret song that only the two of them know. With Billy's help, he learns that it would take a couple of months to find the Zoltar Speaks machine, so Josh rents a flophouse room in New York City and gets a data entry job at MacMillan Toy Company.
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An aging woman, she sits still by her window
Dreaming her love is gonna call her on the phone (Call her on the phone)
??? There have been four???, make-up faded, into wrinkles
Her dreams are fables for she's all alone
Outside the wind lashes raindrops on the window
Coming to get her like the year she watched go by (The year she watched go by)
Now 30 years on,??? she's not there, non the wiser???
There's still no-one around to hear her cry
And when the rain goes, the pain stays inside her
And you spend at parties in nightclubs and bars
Desperate for friendship and shallow over deeper
Too self obsessed to digest who you are
Every night, a beautiful party
Every night, a beautiful man
Every morning when she finds she landed another one night stand
Her friends have left and told her, steadies are just for squares
But now see looks around her and finds they're all in pairs
Her many friends all told her
Those who live like, so much??? confuss???, she never thought of herself (Thought of herself)
So busy following, aware cost of living, never
So they will do is,??? nothing else???
And when the rain goes, the pain stays inside her
And you spend at parties in nightclubs and bars
Desperate for friendship and shallow over deeper
Too self obsessed to digest who you are
Every night, a beautiful party
Every night, a beautiful man
Every morning when she finds she landed another one night stand
Her friends have left and told her, steadies are just for squares
But now see looks around her and finds they're all in pairs
As she goes by, she knows nothing's gonna happen
Her lovers came and went like passing drops of rain (Passing drops of rain)
And thou it hurts her to know it, won't get better
There's always drink to take away the pain
And as she's??? wing???, she don't think anymore
And you spend at parties in nightclubs and bars
Desperate for friendship and shallow over deeper
Too self obsessed to digest who you are
Every night, a beautiful party
Every night, a beautiful man
Every morning when she finds she landed another one night stand
Her friends have left and told her, steadies are just for squares
But now see looks around her and finds they're all in pairs
That's it
All rise?
Go, go, go, go