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Later, in the sweet last light of the afternoon, a lion prowls in lion- colored grasses and vanishes into the perfect camouflage -- setting off for the hunt, alert, indolent and somehow abstracted, as cats are. A rhinoceros disappears: the eye loses it among gray boulders and thorn trees. The rhino becomes a boulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...table Moses demonstrated how the rhinoceros thinks. He used the saltshaker to represent the American visitor. The pepper shaker would be the rhino. The sugar bowl would be the boulder that stood between them. "Be careful," Moses warned. He moved the rhino in an ominous drift to its left. The rhino began to circle the sugar bowl, using the bowl as cover in order to ambush the saltshaker (the visitor) from behind. The visitor became a naked and oblivious wanderer on the white linen plain. He stood frozen and defenseless as the rhino came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa | 2/23/1987 | See Source »

...never missed an episode of Dallas, featuring their son Patrick as the newly revived character Bobby Ewing. "Usually Terry was working during the program," said Bobby Sutherlin, a close friend. "Babe would tape it so he could see it later." One wall of the Lounge, the Duffys' bar in Boulder, Mont. (pop. 1,500), was adorned with photographs of Patrick, 37, who left the former mining camp after high school to find fame on the top-rated nighttime soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Montana: Death in a Small Town | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

Last week Patrick returned to Boulder to mourn his parents. The night before, Terrence, 66, and Babe, 63, were shot dead in what appears to have been a robbery attempt at the bar. Two janitors from nearby Helena, both 19, have been charged with the homicides. In Los Angeles, production of Dallas was shut down briefly as a gesture of respect for the Duffys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Montana: Death in a Small Town | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

...talked as if AIDS were ushering in a new puritan era in which sex-ed courses would be used as a bully pulpit for abstinence. "As awful as it sounds, AIDS is almost a blessing in disguise," said Mary Ann Briggs, a health teacher at Fairview High School in Boulder. "Many kids are very scared by AIDS, and it makes it easier to say, 'Do you really want to get involved with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Sex and Schools | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

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