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...member of an endangered species, for example, yet no statute prevents a zoo from selling it to private owners within the same state. Additional legal pressure will be needed to give current restrictions more teeth. True hunters should be delighted to join in bringing an end to a perverted bloodlust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shooting Leopards in a Barrel | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...Bundy never really died. His charred corpse may now be long buried, and the families of his victims may have found some satisfaction in his execution. But Bundy's spirit--his bloodlust--lives on, if not in a society that preserves capital punishment, than certainly in the hearts and minds of those standing in the pre-dawn light, hawking electric chair pins and cheering as Bundy's hearse drove away...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Bundy's Message | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

...manly art of self-defense. Take it like a man. Be a man. In Archibald MacLeish's play J.B., Job told the Comforter, "I can bear anything a man can bear -- if I can be one." But nobody talks about being a man anymore. When it comes to bloodlust, female gills pant up and down too. In the matter of boxing's fascination for writers, gender has certainly not been disqualifying. Still, the suspicion persists that males secrete some kind of $ archetypal fluid that makes it easier for them to understand what's at work here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing's Allure | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...same malevolent aura as the beast in Arthur Conan Doyle's story. That is exactly the effect sought by some owners, among them dog-fighting enthusiasts, members of street gangs and drug pushers, many of whom use revolting and painful techniques to bring the animals to the verge of bloodlust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Time Bombs on Legs | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

...program. The choreography is little more than an astounding series of leaps and runs. Mukhamedov's entrance is a cadenza of high, bullet- fast jumps. He becomes a projectile of the Roman slaves' insurrection, ending the torrid first scene by rushing downstage to the footlights in an embodiment of bloodlust. But he is no caricature. Mukhamedov's manner is actually diffident, almost impersonal, and this modesty adds a human, even modern, scale that counterbalances his explosive feats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Bolshoi Lords Aleaping | 7/27/1987 | See Source »

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