Word: leopardize
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Last was a leopard shark, billeted in close quarters, looking bilious and rapacious. I watched him swim urgently into the wall, forced to close a circle despite his desire to strike out on a straight line; the passion for linearity, the fatality of circularity, the bleak, self-depleting alternation of ferocity and grim quiescence; above all, the constriction, the small diameter of the circle, with the glass portion of the circumference flashing ever changing, ever irrelevant glimpses of the other spectator strolling among the circles, always falling imperceptibly to his right; these thoughts passed through my mind. The circle...
Hunters of the Ernest Hemingway persuasion, of course, can still arrange an old-fashioned "Big Five" (lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros, Cape buffalo) trophy hunt, provided they have the patience and the price. East Africa's top white hunters are so busy that they are already taking advance reservations for 1973. Most shooting safaris last a minimum of 21 days, and they are exorbitantly expensive. In Kenya, the daily charge per person for four clients with two professional hunters is $422. That fee does not include clothing, game licenses ($300 for a single rhino, plus an extra...
Italy's Luchino Visconti has little love for subtleties or half measures. In such films as The Leopard and Rocco and His Brothers, Visconti has inflated psychological conflict into perfervid librettos of passion, love, deceit, death and a kind of fermenting sexuality. But in The Damned he has outdone himself. The doomed figures of the title are the Von Essenbeck family, an informal assembly of back stabbers, thieves, perverts and murderers who can lay claim to being just about the rottenest clan since the Borgias...
...political control over the areas of South Viet Nam that they occupy and ultimately, perhaps, a chance to elect representatives to a national Parliament. It would, in effect, legalize the realities of the military situation and amount to an uncontiguous partitioning of South Viet Nam, sometimes known as the "leopard spot" plan. But even if supervised by an international commission, as Vance suggests, it would require a high degree of cooperation between the bitter enemies...
ANIMAL WORLD (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Host Bill Burrud discusses such threatened African species as the elephant, giraffe, cheetah, lion and leopard...