Word: wildebeest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High Adventure (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Wildebeest bound, elephants lumber, hippopotamuses wallow, and Lowell Thomas clambers up Central Africa's Mountains of the Moon. Color...
...greatest achievement of African Lion was in its making, the film's greatest fascination lies in its cast. The lion, the leopard, and the cheetah roam, play, and kill among giant herds of wildebeest, impala, and zebra. Stalking, killing, and the division of the spoils take place seemingly within feet of the camera. Then too, there are elephants, baboons, and hippos, scavengers and clowns. The immediacy of these photographs is so consistently startling that it soon becomes truly difficult to believe one's eyes. And yet they must be believed...
This feeling about style, perhaps more than anything else, has always been Hemingway's credo-whether it concerned the right way to kill a bull, track a wildebeest, serve Valpolicella or blow up a bridge. And it was usually the redeeming feature and ultimate triumph of his characters: they might die, but they died with style. They left behind them some aura of virtue, some defiant statement of this-is-the-way-it-should-be-done that amounted to a victory of sorts...