Word: leopards
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...without qualities, an embodied enigma. The spectator knows only that she was an accomplice to a murder. Otherwise he knows nothing about her except what he chooses to imagine, and her job was to make the imagination seethe. She did it superbly. She leaped through the picture like a leopard through a glade. She was glimpsed, she was gone: ulterior and magical, the eternal puzzle of the passerby...
While bearded priests intoned prayers and blessings over blaring loudspeakers, pilgrims dressed in lionskins paraded around the gold-domed shrine, chanting, wailing, beating drums, and imploring the archangel to answer their prayers in return for offerings of jewelry, cash, painted ostrich eggs, rattails and leopard cubs. Disfigured beggars called upon Gabriel for the miracle of a cure. Vendors selling gum, candy, candles, post cards and pictures of movie stars shoved their way through the multitude. Barren women kissed the church's stones, praying the messenger of good tidings to grant them a child. On hand, in case immediate help...
...skirts, some of them mini, more of them of the long, hostess variety. Turtleneck T shirts are In, but they must be made of synthetics, since cotton is very Out, even for skiing. Tom Jones shirts and hip-huggers are In; bell bottoms are Out. Furs, from mink and leopard to lynx and baby seal, are big in coats, hats and even skirts. Suede boots, fur boots, climbing boots and mod boots are In; so are tennis shoes...
...Knight in the Leopard Skin Tariel, the knight in the leopard skin, was the great folk hero of Georgia -before Joseph Stalin came along. To the warlike people of the high wine-and-fruit-growing country between the Black and Caspian seas, Tariel was the perfect combination of vice and virtue. He could slash a man in two with a snap of his whip, slay 10,000 enemies in a single sortie, then weep like a woman at the thought of his own cruelty. Stalin went Tariel one better: he shed no tears. Yet all of Georgia wept when...
...that signal a return to Stalinism on Moscow's part? Not very likely. Brezhnev and Kosygin are willing to give the knight in the leopard skin his due as a major - but flawed - figure in Soviet his tory, and are more concerned with keeping peace in the Soviet family than with any fear of resurgent Stalinism...