Word: leopardize
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...member cast has its clothes on. That turns out to be most of the time. True, the opening scene has them emerging frontally naked from behind shiny, plastic drapes, but within seconds their bare bodies become moving screens for a slide show projecting brilliant patterns of Op art, leopard skins and whirls of color...
...Inner Game Institute above Malibu Beach, Calif., he has urged hundreds of thousands of students, TV viewers and readers to improve their game by shutting up that judgmental and frightened voice. Stop trying so hard, he argues. Let the body and racquet emulate "the unthinking spontaneity of the leopard" and do what comes naturally...
Schell is fatally dependent on fog machines for atmosphere, never makes a simple cut when he can use a stately and portentous camera movement. He loves strange visual juxtapositions - a leopard roaming around a mansion or a violinist sawing away under a tree in a meadow - because jarring imagery, though it conveys no useful informa tion, is fondly believed to wow the impressionable...
...unified its 100 tribes into a true nation after the bloody civil war of the 1960s. Since then, the shy, scholarly army commander has become a flamboyant, African cult figure whose rule sometimes seems akin to that of a god-chief. Mobutu's portrait, capped by the leopard-skin hat that has become his trademark, is everywhere to be seen in the capital city of Kinshasa and throughout the country...
...parade was in honor of the tenth anniversary in power of Zaïre's ebullient President, Mobutu Sese Seko, 45. Wearing his familiar leopard-skin hat, Mobutu proudly watched the arms roll by from a red-canopied reviewing stand, surrounded by nine fellow African heads of state. Less conspicuous, but equally welcome, were dignitaries representing Zaïre's military suppliers, including U.S. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Edward Mulcahy and China's Education Minister Chou Jung-hsin. In fact, Zaïre, the former Belgian Congo, has good relations with practically everyone...