Word: leopard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nonfiction works, such as The Snow Leopard, physical and metaphysical worlds often conspire melodiously. His novels, however, can seem like mountain climbs -- effortful, punishing, dauntingly ambitious mountain climbs that demand as much of the reader as of the author. Often their virtuosity almost obscures their virtues. "Peter always takes the difficult way out," says one editor. Matthiessen all but acknowledges this when he says, "I am really not in the least bit conscious of the reader. Maybe that's braggadocio, or flamboyance, but I really don't think that way. I think you're doing your best work when...
...portrays the victimized Audrey without making her seem like a hopeless caricature. Her touching ballad "Somewhere That's Green" is a hysterical list of simple dreams: "in a tract house we share...I cook like Betty Crocker and I look like Donna Reed..." Even dressed in fake fur and leopard skin and singing lines like "I know Seymour's the greatest but I'm dating a semi-sadist," Dicke manages to make us empathize with her plight...
Down by two late in the game without the ball, the situation was eerily reminiscent of the Crimson's game against Lafayette. In that game, Leopard quarterback Tom Kirchhoff sunk the Crimson defense with two long second-down passes to save the game...
Simon is most effective when he can get outside. Both of his touchdown runs were runs to the right side, where Simon was able to accelerate around and past the Leopard defense untouched...
Izzy was sitting at the top of the T escalators, taking shelter from the rain. He was sporting a leather jacket covered with leopard-spotted fur that matched his dark spotted bleached-blond hair. A bright-red mohawk ran down the middle of his leopard hair. Greasy black jeans, patched many times over at the crotch completed his outfit...