Word: lionessed
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...Pacific glared peevishly back at the Georgian dilettanti from their wooden dens and dirty straw. "Just arrived from Botany-Bay," ran a newspaper advertisement in 1789, "three new live animals for the amusement of the public, with that 3 singular animal the African Savage, a noble Lion and Lioness, a pair of 3 beautiful Leopards, a Lynx, a Sangwin, the Arabian nightwalker ... the Spotted Negro attends from eleven to seven in the evening...
...near Los Angeles. Zsa Zsa decided to throw a theme soirée, and Danny came as a big-game hunter (a curious choice for a function that is raising money to keep animals alive). Also on hand in more tasteful, authentic trappings were a puma, a reindeer, a lioness, a jaguar, a raccoon, a macaw and a Gabor ex-husband-at least one in the group is in little danger of becoming an endangered species...
...William Friedkin wanted; his work in films (The French Connection, The Exorcist) is notable for its harrowing power, not its subtlety. This leaves Max von Sydow, as the doctor, to prowl the set like a lion tamer confronting an unpredictable new beast. He need not worry. Bancroft's lioness isn't hungry enough to eat him. She has already devoured Kempinski's lamb of a play...
...Juliana's reign was the public disgrace of her husband Prince Bernhard, whose role in the Lockheed bribery scandal was exposed in 1976. Like other crises, the Lockheed affair brought out the iron in Juliana's character. "Mammie," as the family calls her, fought like a lioness with then Premier Joop den Uyl, threatening to abdicate on the spot if her husband were subjected to the humiliation of a public trial. After an official investigation, Den Uyl agreed to drop the matter on the condition that Bernhard resign from all official duties...
Childless themselves, the Adamsons fashioned a wilderness family out of Kenya's foundling animals. In 1956, after George had shot a ferocious lioness, the couple rescued her just-born litter. The two stronger females in time went off to a Dutch zoo. Elsa, the weakest, stayed behind to become first a pet (she rode on their Land Rover roof, often slept in George's tent) and then a problem. When Elsa by chance met and roamed briefly with a pride of wild lions, the Adamsons determined to release her and let her return to freedom. In preparation...