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Word: leopard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story itself seems designed to be incomprehensible. A convoluted mess of recurring clues, recurring thugs, and recurring murders, the plot features a murderous priest, a mystery-lady in a leopard coat, a grotesque pimp and a complete cast, shuffled and re-shuffled, of the stock characters. Throughout the film, in fact, the plot contains all the typical characteristics of film noir...

Author: By Hanne-maria Maijala, | Title: No Thrills | 2/21/1984 | See Source »

Craig Williams three yard plunge with 71 seconds remaining lifted Lafayette to a 34-29 victory over Columbia at Easton, Pa. Leopard quarterback Frank Novak fired four touchdown passes and completed 23 of 34 for 306 yards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ivy League Wins Just One of Eight Games On First Weekend of Intersectional Play | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...images corresponds to a real need, which, on the whole, his formal system can handle. But when his indignation is at full blast-as in The Art King, a mordant quotation from Bosch, showing a startled windbag of a culture hero being devoured, crown and all, by a leopard-he is plainly an original, though not necessarily a pleasant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Revelations of Summertime | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

...kept on painting the Erté woman, who is the focus of most of his grand designs. Stylized, curvilinear and faintly kinky, she is identified by her festoon of jewels, trailing furs or crown of feathers. Often accompanying her, on a diamond-studded leash, is a borzoi or a leopard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Erte Irrepressible at 90 | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

...tank, however, is the most egregious example of Pentagon profligacy. It costs three times as much as the M-60 tanks it's designed to replace, but the Army assures us it's "the best tank in the world." That's a dubious claim: the West German Leopard II outperformed the M-1 in competition, but the Army refuses to use a foreign tank. The M-1's much-touted Chobham armor is much more effective than previous armor, but it is so expensive that it's only being put on the front. The M-1's gas turbine engine...

Author: By David V. Thottungal, | Title: Military Playground | 12/4/1982 | See Source »

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