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...less adapted than knocked off. Perhaps the most sophisticated horror film of its decade, it begins by considering a condition that might have served Freud as a case study in sexual hysteria. A young woman named Irena believes that if she makes love she will turn into a leopard-whereupon a man falls obsessively, irresistibly in love with her. Thereafter, through the play of sound and shadow, Director Jacques Tourneur suggests that it might be a good idea to take her at her word. The film is very delicately spooky, the more so because no rational explanation for her lamentable...
SCTV Station Manager Edith Prickley, who favors rhinestone-studded glasses and a leopard-skin coat to match her rakish chapeau. has had several programs of her own - a cooking course, a talk show that was a literal conversation stopper and an outdoor safari documentary that never got much farther than the parking lot. None of them has done particularly well, perhaps because Mrs. Prickley has the anxious friendliness of a piece of misfired puffed wheat and a laugh like the lullaby...
...sources of their military equipment and support, and have looked to Europe for assistance. During the Mecca uprising, France supplied antiterrorist advisers to the Saudis, and West Germany is currently training Saudis in counterterrorist tactics. Now the Saudis are especially interested in such European-produced "next generation" weaponry as Leopard tanks from West Germany and the Super Mirage 4000s from France, and they are prepared to trade highly sweetened, long-term oil deals for them. Explains a West German defense contractor: "There's prestige in mere possession of such weapons systems It strengthens their bona fides with other Arabs...
...S.P.D.'s left was also incensed by a proposed $3 billion arms sale to Saudi Arabia, which would include 300 West German-made Leopard 2 tanks. In return, the Saudis promised to stabilize West German oil prices. Together with some party moderates, the leftists objected that the Saudi sale would violate West Germany's longstanding policy against supplying arms to "areas of tension" outside NATO. Schmidt stood firm. Karl-Heinz Hansen, an S.P.D. left-winger from Düsseldorf, went so far as to denounce Schmidt's policies as "filth...
...1940s this solid sculpture began to give way to assembled pieces looking like figures or standing totems. One influence on them that Nevelson likes to recall was the black iron stanchions of the Manhattan subway stations, "sculptures in themselves"; another was a carved African figure of a leopard she remembered from the Musée de l'Homme in Paris: "It was the first time I recognized the power of that animal, not as an animal, but the power of its forms." Nevelson was drawn to what was mythic and magical in sculpture just as a yearning...