Word: zebras
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...City Supervisor Harvey Milk, San Francisco and its environs had developed a reputation that would give heartburn to a Chamber of Commerce. First there was the 1967 Summer of Love, with its easy exchange of drugs and sex in Haight-Ashbury. Then in 1973 came the racially motivated Zebra killings; Agnos, who was seriously wounded after leaving a neighborhood political meeting, was one of the gunman's 18 randomly chosen victims. Next followed the kidnaping of Newspaper Heiress Patty Hearst and the 1978 mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, to which Jim Jones had moved his cult followers from a "people...
Although the Office for the Arts had envisioned using the Quad for a series of artistic displays, Director Myra M. Mayman announced Tuesday that the orange stripes will not appear. Mayman's plans would have created in three weeks a zebra-like effect of alternating stripes of orange andgreen grass...
Africa is comprehensive: great birth, great death, the beginning and the end. The themes are drawn, like the vivid, abstract hide of the zebra, in patterns of the absolute...
...easy to fall in love not only with the shapes and colors of the animals but with their motions, their curving and infinitely varied gaits. The zebra moves with a strong, short-muscled stride. It is a sleek, erotic beast with vigorous bearing. The zebra's self-possession is a likable trait. It is human habit to sort the animals almost immediately into orders of preference. The animals are arranged in people's minds as a popularity contest. Some animals are endearing, and some repulsive. One wants to see the lion first, and then the elephant and after that...
...obsessions don't stop there, though. The brothers want to be stitched back together, the no-leg lady wants to have a baby, the veterinarian wants more things to saw off. In the end we see a black-attired white prostitute head off into the zebra pens, with the fluorescent sign "ZOO" appearing backwards--a literal return...