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...perfume of her danger the moment they met. From there to bed had been the matter of a few glances between professionals, and the act itself had been high sport, the Wimbledon finals of sex. Now the match was over, and Bond, instead of steeling himself for a stray tarantula under the sheets, found himself ruminating. Was she the good woman or the bad one? In each of his assignments, it seemed, there was always one of each. That makes 24, no, 26 of them, each one flawless and passionate, each succeeding pair more considerate of his advancing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Bond Wagon Crawls Along | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

Andy Young's rooming group is diverse even by Harvard standards. A pet bos constrictor and a tarantula make the Dunster House senior's room look like a cross between a natural preserve and a carnival sideshow. But along with his menagerie, Young brought to Harvard an interest in the study of animals and a highly developed skill in photographing and filming them in their native habitats on three continents...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: Wild Kingdom | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...lurches across and off the stage topless, his baby fat segueing to paunch, his voice clogged with booze and speed, his bruised, burned and scarred body looking like a souvenir from a guerrilla war in which he was the only participant. He passes time offstage with his pet tarantula and his friend Michelle, who giggles about the day she and Darby discovered a corpse in their backyard. At night Darby wanders through rock halls as the more engaged members of the audience pogo to the music and slam into each other with the force of bumper cars. Darby doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: LA. Dolce Vita | 7/27/1981 | See Source »

Cassinelli, working with John S. Mathis and Blair D. Savage, discovered R136A last summer using information collected by the International Ultra-Violet Explorer Satellite. The star is located 150,000 light years away inside the gaseous Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic cloud, a neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way. It is surrounded by ultra-violet rays which give the nebula its blue glow...

Author: By Janet F. Fifer, | Title: A Star Is Born: R136A Makes Debut | 2/25/1981 | See Source »

...dawn, the tarantula twosome slithers, separately, into the bedroom of Malcolm and Kate, and on encountering a rickety desk that Malcolm has spent all night assembling, Trevor, with one helping touch, reduces it to a pile of kindling. Ayckbourn is an alchemist of incipient disaster, and his absurdist humor cuts through the veneer of domestic tranquillity with a serrated edge. Yet his surgery is oddly healing, a kind of revelation through copious laughter and minimal malice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Manic High | 4/9/1979 | See Source »

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