Word: leopard-skin
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...shades on his eyes, and with a cigarette holder between his teeth, he drives his silver Ferrari "as fast as I can everywhere I go, playing little tunes on the gears." For solace, he retreats to his 22-room Spanish villa atop Beverly Hills, sits cross-legged on a leopard-skin pillow, drops his head, closes his eyes, and bongs away on four Japanese gongs and a large hollow log from Mexico. "My gong guru and I," he recalls, "used to go out in the desert and take some peyote and just hit it. Wild vibrations, man! Overlapping...
...front bench of the crowded Chamber of Deputies and tried to look confident. Three rows back, his predecessor, Moise Tshombe, tapped his foot nervously. As the Congolese Parliament met in joint session last week, about the only empty seat in the Palais de la Nation was the leopard-skin presidential chair itself: President Joseph Kasavubu, who could not vote anyway, had gone off to attend a memorial service for the nation's civil war dead...
...have a coming-out party, divided most of her time between junkets to Europe and sculpture lessons in Cambridge, Mass. After settling in New York last summer, she drifted aimlessly about, looking for modeling jobs by day and dancing at discotheques by night, invariably dressed in racy culottes or leopard-skin slacks. Last January, having nothing better to do, she showed up at a screening at Warhol's movie "factory," talked herself into a part, soon took over where 1964's "Girl of the Year," Baby Jane Holzer, had left off. Said she: "I didn't know...
...night last November, two stern and intractable members of Franco's Guardia Civil, on routine patrol on the beach in search of smugglers, peered into the windows of an American's seaside cottage to see what was to them an appalling sight: ladies in fig leaves and leopard-skin bras dancing with gentlemen in fur loincloths. Wanamaker Heir Gurnee Munn Jr. had invited the American colony to a caveman party. Many of the 100-odd guests he had invited to come in fancy undress had decided to stay home because of the bad weather. Those that came, despite...
...lapeled jackets with turned-back Edwardian cuffs, and a mink necktie. "It looks like a raccoon at my jugular," says Tynan. "People ask me, 'Who's your friend?' " At home, with his two-year-old daughter and his American-born wife Elaine Dundy, he sometimes wears leopard-skin pants...