Word: tigress
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...believe how a woman, if she is not the devil in disguise, can make such a malicious man-hating appeal. She should understand that in the fire of nuclear war millions of people would perish, including her own children, if she has any. Even the wildest of animals, a tigress even, worries about her cubs, licks and pities them...
...such, it is nevertheless lively and diverting. Belmondo, who in Breathless emerged in one catlike bound as the French Bogart, here plays the polar opposite of that part and plays it with wit and sensitivity. And Loren, though hardly the woman Moravia had in mind, makes a superlative tigress. Cunning, selfish, sensual, ferocious and above all female, she leaps on her passions and tears them to spectacular tatters...
...early-morning chill. An airstrip was constructed; access roads from Katmandu, 160 miles away, were widened and improved. In high grass four miles from camp, workmen set up a "hunting ring," surrounded by a 5-ft. fence of white cloth and stocked with a smallish 8-ft. 8-in. tigress flushed from the jungle the day before...
...Action. But Philip was out of action with a "whitlow infection" (more commonly known as a boil) on his trigger finger. Accordingly, Nepal's King Mahendra passed the honor to Britain's Foreign Secretary, Lord Home. Eight times elephants goaded the snarling tigress into the open "firing zone." Three times Lord Home shot. He missed all three...
...most famous modern operatic husband is Giovanni Battista Meneghini, the building-materials millionaire who, legend has it, built Maria Callas. Even Meneghini has his critics, who claim that he stripped Callas of every cent she made and prodded her into her notorious tigress behavior. But whatever a husband's shortcomings, the care and feeding of a diva is no easy task. One veteran recalls his routine before each performance: "I keep all windows shut, even in summer. I also make sure my wife eats no soups, pasta or heavy foods. I avoid smoking and refrain from doing or saying...