Word: feral
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...Feral Magnetism. As the Frenchman descended from hero to convict, the Hungarian rose from dilettante to provocateur. Herzl did not invent the idea of a Jewish state-the appeal of Return to Jerusalem is, after all, as ancient as the Diaspora. But Herzl alone took it from vision to plan to practicality. On the way he assumed the countenance and the stature of a prophet, sweeping all objections from his path. A feral magnetism began to animate his face and conversation. Philosopher Martin Buber was later to recall him as "a statue without error or mistake, a countenance lit with...
...plethora of weak, vulgar bronzes of recent pontiffs. The only distinguished image of a Pope in the collection is one of Francis Bacon's variations on Velásquez's Innocent X. The gift of Italian Automobile Tycoon Gianni Agnelli, it sits, mouth open in a feral and silent snarl, glaring at the sacramental kitsch around it. But that it should be hung as "religious" art is unconscious black humor...
...stop is 15 miles and seemingly 15 light-years away. It is Del Rio Customs, a garage that equips cars with elaborate racing stripes and mag wheels. The place gives a visitor the feeling that two dozen Hell's Angels are about to wheel in looking for some feral fun. When anonymous death threats were made against Jackson before last year's World Series, he hired beefy Proprietor Tony Del Rio as his temporary bodyguard...
...main advantage of this method is that it is directed specifically at sheep killers. Our data show that these resourceful and handsome feral dogs will not kill what they would...
Riggs went gloriously wild, even by his own feral standards. He became a sudden lover about town, acting like a sawed-off version of his old betting crony Errol Flynn. Making the rounds of expensive restaurants, he cuddled, nuzzled and took the phone number of every willing young thing in sight. It was as if he were acting out the fantasy in his after-shave commercial. The scenario has two tennis bunnies leaping the net to embrace him. In the closing shot, Riggs winks, tilts his tennis shade rakishly and says: "Imagine, a 55-year-old sex symbol...