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...information that if the neighbor's dog is keeping you awake by nightlong barking, you call the Police Department. If the annoyance is merely smelly or the result of bad house training, appeal to the Department of Buildings. But if the neighboring pet turns out to be a jaguar (fond of dropping in through your window unannounced and at odd hours), the appeal is to the Health Department (keeping dangerous animals without proper safeguards...
That Man from Rio. Sssh. Out of a shadow a shadow glides, a sinister shape that stands up like a man but treads as softly as a jaguar. Stealthily the figure slips past the guard as he closes the main gate of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris; silently the figure vanishes along an aisle. Some minutes later the museum guard hears the crash of shattering glass, and away he runs to find out who is stealing what. Some minutes after that the police stand pondering a curious coincidence. The object stolen from the museum...
Flaksman's performance suggested a Jaguar sports car confined to Boston traffic: though it was obvious that he was good, it was hard to tell what he could do, because of what he had to play. Conforming with the Romantic arrangement of the Vivaldi, he obviously tried for as rich an effect as possible; he used heavy vibrato and full bows. Yet, curiously, he played a lot of notes on the open strings without any false vibrato an octave above or below. He made no attempt to shape whole phrases. His tone had a thin, strained sound...
...jaguar safari in Sarapiqui is no sport for weak knees or weak stomachs. Not for Costa Ricans are the portable refrigerators, battery-operated LP phonographs and folding beds of the Kenya set. In Sarapiqui it is man; tent, sleeping bag and insect repellent against the elements. The. jungle is so thick, even on the-trails, that it sometimes takes a machete-wieldiag hunter 20 minutes to go 100 yds., Standard safari fare is beans and rice, plus what, ever the hunter shoots for the pot-boar steaks,, perhaps, or delicate morsels of tepez-cuintle, a 25-lb. creature that claims...
Nighttime Lesson. The jaguar, a wily, elusive beast that is vicious when cornered, is hunted either by day with dogs or by night with lights. Daredevil bushland residents, like Sarapiqui's Froylan Ponce, prefer night hunting because "it is surer-El Tigre moves at night." Others, like Enrique Martinez, a professional guide from San Jose, have learned a lesson or two. Two years ago Martinez was leading a hunting party that jumped a 250-lb. jaguar at night. He trained his coal miner's head lamp on the animal while one of the hunters took aim and fired...