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...liked the wild animals, the laibon answered, "I like the animals, but they do not like human beings. That is the problem. But the eland is a friend. You can eat an eland, and use his skin for many things." Not long ago, the laibon dreamed that a spitting cobra bit him. He cried in his sleep and leaped out of his bed, shaking, and awoke...

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

...horns. She could neither run nor scream. The buffalo pushed her into the water with his nose. Memusi had a dream about a lion's attacking and biting, and she tried to scream but could not. Lekerenka could not scream, either, when bitten in his dreams by a spitting cobra. He woke up crawling on the ground...

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

...soaring success of Top Gun is typical of the shrewd marketing methods Mancuso had championed at Paramount even before he took over as chairman. Top Gun was originally scheduled to open in late May, at the same time as Warner's Sylvester Stallone shoot-'em-up Cobra and MGM's horror flick Poltergeist II. Mancuso instead elected to preview the Paramount entry a week early, then expand its showing in the beginning of June. By bracketing the competition, explains Barry London, Paramount's new distribution and marketing chief, "we got the film established in the marketplace." In the same vein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Frank Mancuso: Hollywood's Top Gun | 12/29/1986 | See Source »

...Rocky trilogy: In the path not taken, Rocky would have become the populist mayor of Philadelphia in II and get tossed out because of a corruption scandal in III, ending up back in the ring where he started. Stallone decided Philadelphia City Hall was small-time; the Rocky-Rambo-Cobra hybrid which has terrorized movie screens near you has nothing less than a new world order in mind...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: John Avildsen: | 11/7/1986 | See Source »

...year. But it was the first time since November 1983 that an Israeli plane had been destroyed by enemy fire. One pilot hid in the brush for an hour, activating an electronic device that enabled a rescue helicopter to determine his position. Despite heavy gunfire and difficult terrain, a Cobra helicopter gunship plucked the stranded pilot to safety and flew him 40 miles to the Israeli side of the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel Threat to an Uneasy Peace | 10/27/1986 | See Source »

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