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...creative effort and most of them were of Frida Kahlo herself, painted with tiny, meticulous brush strokes and clear, strong colors. There was a moody Frida with an opening in her finely shaped head exposing a childlike skull & crossbones, a gay Frida in schoolgirl dress, Frida as a wounded deer, as an agonized figure writhing on a hospital bed. The overall impression was of a painful autobiography set down with brush & paint...
...performed a really long penance, God might be pleased enough to bring "peace to the world." A fortnight ago, frail, black-bearded, 56-year-old Narayan let himself down to the bottom of a deep, six-foot-square pit outside of New Delhi. He spread the skin of a deer on the pit's wooden floor, placed his sandals carefully by his side, sat down and assumed the cross-legged "lotus position." Then he passed out a signed statement: "If anything wrong happens to my physical body, nobody should be held responsible but myself." At Narayan's signal...
...four-footed friends the island Pygmies could boast were a few small pigs, rats and native, skunklike creatures. In 1928 an Indian government expert visited the Andamans and decided that what the islands needed was a properly decorative quadruped. He introduced a pair (male & female) of dainty spotted chital deer. With no natural enemies to bother them, the chital deer multiplied wonderfully. They were lovely to look at, and they were soon making a mess of the Andaman Islands, eating the forests bare and ruining the native farms...
Last year another government expert visited the Andamans. What the islands now needed, he decided, was a pair of panthers to control the deer. The panthers were soon delivered, and last week New Delhi's Forestry Department announced that they are already making a deep impression on the deer population. Furthermore, it said, there should be no danger of a new epidemic of wild life on Andaman-both panthers are females...
...University there was nothing like running for the Crime and chasing from the astronomical observatory to the custodian of the glass flowers, and also to the residences of various professors for possible scoops. The candidacy was calculated to give toughness which in the early New England days came from deer stalking and Indian fighting...