Word: cheetah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Accessories in spots and stripes are big items as well. Marshall Field's in Chicago has a ponytail garter ($8) and a leopard-spotted headband ($10). At New York City's Saks Fifth Avenue a cheetah chiffon bow ($25 to $45) and a jaguar belt ($165) are moving well. Kids can get jungle-cat skirts ($30) and flannel dresses ($55) at Henri Bendel in Manhattan...
...then, excitement rears its crazy clown face. "Once a kid walked up and asked me, "What's the fastest animal in the world?" I told him 'The cheetah...
MANY OF God's creatures are built for speed: The lean and hungry cheetah. The soaring spine-tailed swift. And let us not forget the turbo-charged Ferrari 380 GTS. But fast as they are, not one of these will able to touch my heels the moment that $64,000 piece of parchment touches my palms. Like a bat out of hell, Alyshiba out of the gate or Larry Bird out of the back court, I will be out of Harvard so fast it will make your head swim and your crops wilt...
...Then again, you could go to the French and pick up a couple of their old Mirages. You'd save major bucks. Or you could go to Israel or South Africa and pick up a Kfir or a Cheetah, which are basically knock-offs of the same thing...
...killing field. The peaceable kingdom is dung covered and bone littered, its graceful life subject to sudden violent extinctions. A high turnover. Life is to be stalked and slain, almost abstractly, and ingested. These days, the death is also to be photographed. The tourist minibuses cluster around a cheetah kill. The late 20th century forlornly suckles on the Pleistocene. The whites popping through the roofs of the vehicles like blossoms from a vase will glare at one another with the hatred of one whose dream has been interrupted...