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Cousin, Cousine's final image epitomizes Tacchella's approach. Abandoned by the magician and his audience, a woman who is supposed to have been sawn in half cries out to be released from half a trunk. If Tacchella wants us to be truly involved with his films, he will have to let his people...
...most dauntless of Saint Laurent's private clients. "It's gorgeous but it's unwearable," complained one buyer. Said a rich client, "I buy clothes to travel, and with this collection it is one dress for one suitcase. This may bring back the steamer trunk...
Deep in the Darien jungle of Panama last week, a long, pink cayuco (dugout canoe), propelled by an outboard motor, skimmed over the 150-ft.-deep waters of the newly formed lake. Spotting a floating tree trunk ahead, Tomas Perez, a Panamanian Indian, gave the motor full throttle, then lifted the propeller out of the water. The canoe slid easily over the log, hardly disturbing its other occupants, TIME correspondent Bernard Diederich and an odd assortment of caged animals. Following closely behind were two more cayucos manned by other Panamanians and a fiberglass boat carrying the project leader, U.S. Biologist...
Sighting a kinkajou (tropical honey-bear) in a treetop rising above the water, Walsh gave the order to move in. The cayuco bumped gently against the treetop, and an ax-wielding Indian hoisted himself onto a branch to chop through the trunk. As the treetop toppled, he caught the kinkajou by the tail before it hit the water. Soon the little bear was safely ensconced in a cage in mid-canoe. A black-vested anteater was rescued next, followed by an opossum, two sloths and even a 6-ft.-long tree boa. Explains Walsh: "I don't apologize...
Campaigning for one's own prose requires the stamina of a yak, the organizational ability of an ant colony and the indiscriminate digestion of a sewage trunk line. Says Barbara Howar, recalling her "airplane luggage carnival" to hype her first book Laughing All the Way (1974): "I grew to hate lamb chops, but it was the only thing you could count on the hotel not ruining." Between stops for Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, Author Susan Brownmiller remembers looking at her publisher's schedule and reading "Eat sandwich now!" They were right. It was the only...