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Fields said the terrible connotations of such metaphors cling to the images they describe "like the smell of skunk...
...four-year veteran (1958-62) of the bad old days of apartheid when I was with the U.S. embassy in South Africa, I continue to be amazed at the comparative civility of that country's metamorphosis [SOUTH AFRICA, May 8] from the skunk among nations to the butterfly of hope for oppressed peoples everywhere. If Nelson Mandela can steer his nation safely past the tribal bloodbaths that drench the African continent, he will have fathered the eighth wonder of the world...
...director -- a roly-poly guy who resembled the cop (far right) in Who Killed Who? -- could make movies that were cute and fun. Avery created sweet, but crazy, Disney-style elves in the charmfest The Peachy Cobbler. The perennially rejected skunk star of the delightful Little 'Tinker is wondrously resilient, pouting for a millisecond before leaping for joy in anticipation of his next true love. An Avery hero had to have a heart, if only so it could be broken. Also spindled, mutilated, detonated -- or bursting bomblike out of his chest, for all the world...
...joyous ceremony attended by representatives of more than 150 countries, ; Nelson Mandela became the first black President of South Africa. "Never, never and never again shall this beautiful land experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world," he said. On Friday, however, township violence broke out again, resulting in 12 deaths...
Since January 1993, eight rabid reccoons and one rabid skunk have been caught by Cambridge authorities Mark McCabe, director of the Cambridge Animal Commission, estimated that there are between 50 and 70 sick raccoons in the area...