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...South Africa's government engages in constant surveillance, so, in McClure's vision, do its citizens spy on one another, usually out of jealousy or greed. The consequences are often fatal. This peeping and prying is a focus of The Steam Pig and of two other memorable entries: The Caterpillar Cop and The Gooseberry Fool. Fittingly, Zondi and Kramer meet in The Song Dog after surreptitiously trailing each other, each in search of clues to his own case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Apartheid, He Wrote | 8/5/1991 | See Source »

...Annette Crossley, cost is not the main concern. Slowly regaining strength, with little hair left on her head, she remains a picture of hope. "This is the caterpillar stage," she says, grinning gamely, "the ugly stage before the butterfly comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Rough Road to Recovery | 1/14/1991 | See Source »

...whole apparatus is very much like a bong, which led to a lot of interrogations when Mark used to sit crosslegged in the Winthrop courtyard puffing away, water gurgling through the pipes, hose coiled around his knees. The caterpillar in last fall's Mainstage production of Alice in Wonderland, pillowed like a pasha on his guru's mushroom, was smoking Mark's sheesha...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Bringing Home the World: Exploring the Margins | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

Will the next conscript in the war on drugs be an inch-long, greenish-white beastie with a taste for coca leaves? The idea of bombarding the high mountain valleys of Bolivia and Peru with millions of eggs from the malunya moth, which in its caterpillar stage loves to munch on the foliage of the cocaine- producing plant, got a lot of play in Washington last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Fuzzy-Wuzzy Narcs | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...Wright investigation began last June when Republicans, stung by the improprieties of Mike Deaver and Ed Meese, set out to make sleaze a bipartisan issue. As the highest-ranking Democrat, Wright, whose slicked-back hair, caterpillar eyebrows and leering grin give him the look of a wheeler-dealer, was a good target. After revelations of an unusual deal in which a Texas publisher paid Wright 55% royalties -- three or four times the usual rate -- for a collection of the Speaker's speeches and anecdotes, Common Cause and 72 Republicans asked the House Ethics Committee to investigate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Case of Wright and Wrong | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

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