Word: leopard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Republican White is skeptical. "A leopard doesn't change his spots," he says. "The people of Arkansas knew he was using them. He thought he could fool them and spend his time advancing his own career." White's proudest achievements as Governor have been his reorganization of the state's vocational schools and his gusto for capital punishment. "I've set 22 execution dates," he declares. "Clinton wouldn't set any execution dates." White is riled by a federal court ruling that a state law he signed, requiring public schools to teach "creation science...
...Greenidge has been the best SID we've ever had," said Rensselaer swimming coach. Clarence Leopard Working without any paid assistants. Greenidge manages to publicize all of RPI's varsity sports teams while also coaching the JV baseball team...
...young woman is led by several men out into a sandy orange landscape. With dreamlike acquiescence she walks. They come to a solitary tree. She is bound to the tree and the men leave. Soon a black leopard comes upon...
...less adapted than knocked off. Perhaps the most sophisticated horror film of its decade, it begins by considering a condition that might have served Freud as a case study in sexual hysteria. A young woman named Irena believes that if she makes love she will turn into a leopard-whereupon a man falls obsessively, irresistibly in love with her. Thereafter, through the play of sound and shadow, Director Jacques Tourneur suggests that it might be a good idea to take her at her word. The film is very delicately spooky, the more so because no rational explanation for her lamentable...
...these are offered, unfortunately, in the new version, which stars Kinski, flat of voice, spirit and chest, as Irena. There is a fake anthropological prologue in which Hollywood's tribe of all-purpose primitives is seen tethering its maidens rather uncomfortably close to a black leopard's lair, thus establishing Irena's heritage, lost in the mists of the backlot. And there is Malcolm McDowell, quite persuasively feline, as her brother. In his human form he is something of a tomcat, which, of course, means he keeps turning into a big cat, with unfortunate results...