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...Concerning the National Enquirer story [Feb. 21]: sorry-the leopard has only changed half its spots if their story on Howard Hughes (which included me) is any example...
...Leopard, directed by Visconti and starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale. Mather House dining hall, 8, 10, March...
...actual coronation occurred at the moment when South Africa's Minister of Bantu Administration, Michiel Botha, presented letters of appointment to Prince Zwelithini, whose father, Chief Cyprian, died 18 months ago. Standing stiffly in a plain black suit with a leopard-skin sash draped incongruously across it, the Prince wept with emotion. Then the crowd roared a traditional tribute: "Bay-ete wenawendhlovu [Hail, noble elephant]," and Zwelithini took his place on a throne of scented tamboetie wood with arm rests carved in the shape of lions...
...carriers have been wearing furs ever since the mid-18th century, the ministry nonetheless agreed last week not to buy any more skins. What happens when the present supply runs low? Well, there is a company near London that makes synthetic skins for $40 (v. $300 for a good leopard skin and $550 for a tiger), but the bandsmen may not have to stoop to that just yet. "There must be thousands of skins from the old raj days being used as rugs or knocking around in attics," said Colonel Rodney Bashford, director of the Royal Military School of Music...
...found in this exhibit, even though artists of about the same historical period are represented (i.e., Beardsley, Blake). Eugene Delacroix, 19th century French rebel of classicism did not fear losing the charm of his drawing. Reclining Tiger, and from his sketches of a spotted leopard and a listless, striped tiger, framed he fearful symmetry of a wide-eyed beast of prey, Tigre Royale. Where in pencil, the tiger's feet were merely misshaped ovals, in lithograph form, the cat's paws took on the stream-lined and savage spikes of track shoes. His feline groin is striped like a surreal...