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...Field Marshal Idi Amin Dada, 49, a man of mercurial personality, who in a short six years has caught the world's attention with his unpredictable and often deadly antics. He is killer and clown, big-hearted buffoon and strutting martinet. He can be as playful as a kitten and as lethal as a lion. He stands 6 ft. 4 in. tall and carries a massive bulk of nearly 300 lbs., and within that girth courses the unharnessed ego of a small child, a craze for attention and reverence. Last week Idi Amin was playing to the hilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Amin:The Wild Man of Africa | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

Absorbing Entertainment. Not just women. Not only in the 19th century. For millions of people who wouldn't drown a kitten, there is still no more absorbing entertainment than the story of the killing of a human being. Who among the connoisseurs of real-life homicide could resist a title like Victorian Murderesses'? Never mind that some, having been French, were not quite Victorian, and others, having been acquitted, were not exactly murderesses. The real delight is that Historian Mary S. Hartman does more than reconstruct twelve famous trials. She has written a piece on the social history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arsenic in the Soup | 2/28/1977 | See Source »

...collection of dresses, blouses, shirts and short shorts created by her friend, Designer Arlette Nastat. The threads, which go on sale next month in stores in Manhattan and Dallas, are clingy, transparent and décolleté. The market for the collection, however, may be limited. The former sex kitten sees potential customers as "women who have my allure, my look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 3, 1977 | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...furry and cute, and make like a kitten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven Lords A-Leaping... and Other Seasonal Matters | 12/17/1976 | See Source »

...most amazing displays of charismatic presence we had ever seen, in or out of the ring, the slender, unassuming man humbled the cowboy twice his size with a single sentence; "Listen, man, do you know who I am? I'm Joe Perkins." The boohoo, now gentle as a hypnotized kitten, was then led in by the ring police to a three dollar seat. Mysteriously as he had appeared, Joe Perkins suddenly vanished...

Author: By N. NASH Eberstadt, | Title: Who REALLY Runs Professional Wrestling? | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

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