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Rampage. "The enchantress," the director of the zoo explains excitedly, "is a magnificent accident of nature, half tiger and half leopard." But when the great white hunter (Robert Mitchurn) arrives in Malaya to trap this exotic specimen, he encounters an enchantress (Elsa Martinelli) who is patently another breed of cat. Her eyes are brown, her claws are red, her coat was made by Oleg Cassini. As she glides through the jungle, her tail twitches wickedly and Mitchum's thinning hair stands...
Woodward A. Wickham '64, Lampoon president, expressed "the profoundest regret" on learning that the bird was not to come home this Saturday. He added, "It is beyond belief that a bird-finding agency could be so incompetent as to let a priceless specimen out of its hands." Wickham also made it clear that the Lampoon had cancelled all plans for a mammoth celebration in Freedom Square tomorrow...
Reduced to a Specimen. Miranda is full of emotions, and she tries them all on Clegg to win her release. She wheedles, she sympathizes, she fasts, she taunts him; but his response is always a numbing impassivity. He is too self-absorbed to follow an argument, too repressed to allow himself an emotion. Miranda tries to teach him something about art and music, but with typical self-pity he says he cannot appreciate them because he was not brought up with her advantages. Gradually it dawns on Miranda that Clegg is a modern version of Caliban-"anti-life, antiart, anti...
...emergency room of University Hospitals in Cleveland could not swallow and could scarcely talk. Her tongue was swollen and intensely painful. Through these impediments she managed to tell the doctor that while tending her house plants that afternoon, she had bitten a piece of stalk from a handsome specimen with striped leaves, called Dieffenbachia. Her pain was so severe that the doctors had to give her a morphine-type drug. After a while she was able to take, though painfully, a little aluminum-magnesium hydroxide as an antidote to whatever poison she might have swallowed. Her face and blistered mouth...
Together. Her biography made her sound like a perfect specimen of Socialist womanhood: father a tractor driver killed in World War II, mother a factory worker. Cosmonette Valentina herself was a textile worker, night school student and Young Communist functionary until she got interested in parachuting as a hobby (she made 126 jumps) and was picked for cosmonaut training...