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Word: preys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken in the dark of the darkest bedrooms. Such practices now range far afield from criminal matters into divorce cases, income tax disputes, industrial espionage. One female operative working in San Francisco for the Internal Revenue Service wore a tiny transmitter concealed in her brassiere. She would encourage her prey to put his head on her bosom, thereby assuring perfect reception. Thus does Government bureaucracy these days re-create the world of James Bond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: IN DEFENSE OF PRIVACY | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...NAKED PREY. Man hunting in Africa a long dark century ago, with resourceful Director-Star Cornel Wilde as the sole survivor of an ill-fated safari, who becomes fair game for savage warriors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 8, 1966 | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...NAKED PREY. A desperate white hunter (Cornel Wilde) flees ten man-killing native hunters, giving fierce momentum to a classic African adventure drama that never stints on beauty, blood or savagery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 1, 1966 | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...Clint Johnston and Don Peters, a few scraps of English dialogue and African dialect count for less than the surprise of a snapping twig or the insistent throb of drums, injected into the bloodstream of the film like so many shots of adrenaline. Without insulting modern Africa, Naked Prey writes the wild poetry of its past in raw colors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Man Hunt | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

Psychotic Rats. Aggression, Lorenz instantly announces, is not a bad thing in itself. As one of the four fundamental instincts (hunger, sex, fight, flight), it is indispensable to most animal species. By means of aggression a species defends its members, attacks its prey, winnows its weak in mating fights and achieves safety through wide distribution-the territory of some species expands because each male maintains a domain that no other male is permitted to invade. Aggression, on the other hand, is a force more carefully controlled in most animals than it is in man. Members of two different animal species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Phylogeny of Violence | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

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