Word: rhinos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RHINO! is a brilliantly scenic safari that combines the usual African flora and fauna with highly entertaining melodrama and a sharp sense...
...Rhino! is a brilliantly scenic, instructive, timely and entertaining tale of African adventure. The hero (Robert Gulp) is a zoologist who dedicates his skills to the preservation of African wildlife; the villain (Harry Guardino) is a poacher who devotes his energies to their annihilation. Told that the villain is an excellent guide, the hero in all innocence hires him to hunt down a pair of rare white rhinos and transport them to a game preserve, where they may safely multiply. The villain, of course, secretly intends to make off with the hero's pharmic rifle, a device that fires...
...Rhino!, however, is not fundamentally a picture about people. It is a picture about animals and the latest techniques of stalking and taking them. The processes and instruments-dart guns, synthesized animal odors, tiny transmitters attached to the quarry's body-are studied in detail. And the animals themselves are examined almost incessantly with wonder and with love. They are all there-hippos that seem to hang by their eyes from the water's surface, gazelles that dart above the grasslands like big, golden bees, leopards that grow on trees like spotted, alarming fruit-and they are there...
Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino...
...tickbird still follows the rhino, and to the extent that Africa's new leadership has not met Africa's aspirations, or avoided the pitfalls left by its colonial past, heads have been rolling. The headlines of the past two months testify that Africa is still a continent of chaos and contradiction. Since the year began, crises have erupted at a rate of one a week, and it seems that in the alphabet of independent Africa, A is for anarchy, B is for bedlam, and C is for coup...