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...Crimson will need all the confidence it can muster if it is to defeat a Panther team with many serious scoring threats...

Author: By Peggy L. Yeh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Something's Gotta Give: Unbeaten Laxwomen, Terrapins Meet Today | 4/11/1992 | See Source »

...precisely this ambiguity. He includes obvious symbols of mixed sexuality such as a transvestite and a pair of castrated men, as well as more subtle devices. For example, the viewer is fooled by the darkness into believing that a policeman seated at his desk is actually Claire's black panther in cage...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Like That Old Relative Who Won't Go Away: A "Dragging" Visit at the Loeb Mainstage | 4/9/1992 | See Source »

...People was the first and best of these films. It is the story of Irena Dubrovna (Simone Simon), a beautiful young Serbian woman who is cursed to turn into a panther whenever she is sexually aroused. Obviously, love is a dangerous thing...

Author: By Peter D. Pinch, | Title: For a Subtle Chill | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

Unfortunately, though, we're in the 1940s, and love is inevitable. Irena meets Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) at the zoo, in front of the panther cage. In love before the blink of an eye, Oliver proposes and they marry, against Irena's better judgement. They have not even gone as far as a simple kiss...

Author: By Peter D. Pinch, | Title: For a Subtle Chill | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

Irena's bliss is to be short-lived--an encounter with another potential "cat woman" brings back her fears. She desperately wants to be "everything that the name Mrs. Reed means," (this is as close as the movie gets to talking about sex) but the spectre of the panther always looms over her. Oliver, good red-blooded American that he is, dismisses her European myths. He sends her to a psychiatrist...

Author: By Peter D. Pinch, | Title: For a Subtle Chill | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

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