Word: beast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jason & the Bronze Beast...
...shady dealings with the Bank of Brazil. Diários struck back by turning loose David Nasser, 46, Brazil's best-read and most-feared columnist. In a series of four articles in the big (circ. 425,000), slick O Cruzeiro magazine, Nasser laid into Brizola as "the beast of the Apocalypse," "an overfed revolutionary," "a Teddy boy of the pampas." "Saddened is the journalist who has the duty to dip his pen in your putrefied career and in your piffling figure...
...woman he lives with (Rachel Roberts). He gives her expensive dinners and expensive furs. She doesn't really want them. What she wants is the love of another human being, and this he cannot give her-at best, he can give her the emotions of a beast. At the climax of their frustration, she dies of a brain hemorrhage and he batters himself to a bloody pulp on the football pitch...
Tarzan has long since made pals of the chimps, but gorillas still have a terrible reputation. This is enhanced by the snorting, dust-throwing performances that they sometimes put on in zoos. But the picture of the gorilla as a beastly beast draws only tolerant smiles from Zoologist George B. Schaller. After two years spent among the mountain gorillas (Gorilla gorilla beringei) that live near Lake Kivu in the eastern Congo, Schaller is convinced that his hairy friends are placid, peace-loving creatures who seldom damage anything except edible plants. His book, The Mountain Gorilla (University of Chicago...
...Beast. Weeks ago, Atlantis II, of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, lowered "The Beast," a weird M.I.T.-designed rig. At the end of the Beast's 9,000-ft. cable, a small echo sounder measured its distance from the bottom. A pair of powerful strobe lights flashed at six-second intervals, and two cameras took pictures. In the eternal darkness at 8,000 ft., they needed no shutters; they merely advanced their film in time for the next flash from the strobes...