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Saturday, each of the seniors played significant roles in allowing Lafayette just 16 points and leading the Crimson to its 700th victory ever. Ramer led the team in tackles, while Andre and Ellis led the secondary as it stopped the Leopard passing game from taking over the game...

Author: By Y. TAREK Farouki, | Title: Of Shaved Heads And Windy Cities | 10/6/1993 | See Source »

...that, supposedly, the only violence prehumans had to worry about was from other stick-wielding bipeds like themselves. Thus some punctured australopithecine skulls found in Africa were at first chalked up to "intentional armed assault" -- until someone pointed out that the punctures precisely fit the tooth gap of the leopard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth of Man As Hunter | 8/2/1993 | See Source »

...home, loaded with color television sets. At the Gallery, a Brussels nightclub, a naked Hungarian couple thrash about in what appears to be a live sex act, to tape-recorded groans. Across the Belgian capital at the Aloha Club, Lenka, a 21-year-old Czech stripper, outfitted in fake leopard skin, entertains clients with $470 magnums of champagne. Half the peep shows in town are now staffed by East Europeans -- up from 1% three years ago, according to police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prostitution: The Skin Trade | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laureate of The Wild: PETER MATTHIESSEN | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Lori E. Smith, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Entertaining Shop of Horrors | 12/10/1992 | See Source »

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