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...Coach Buddy Powers will look to promising sophomores Xavier Majic and Ron Pasco to carry a lion's share of the offensive duties for the team...
...executives, prime-time television since the early 1970s -- when strict limits on the networks' own production took effect -- has become more and more a captive of Los Angeles. It is especially dominated by a small but powerful group of L.A.-based writer-producers who year after year create the lion's share of successful prime-time programs. Numbering no more than 150, they serve as the industry's permanent bureaucracy, remaining in place while studio chiefs and network honchos come and go. As a result, they have gained enormous influence over what is broadcast into America's living rooms. This...
...businessman may lament losing contact with an illegitimate son he may have had by still another woman. Equally, he may have concocted this story just to dissuade his second wife from having an abortion. The man seemingly believes that on safari he once faced down a charging lion, which sniffed and retreated in apparent acknowledgment of a fellow animal presence. But the memory may be a mere metaphor for the kind of masculinity he is trying to keep alive. The facts ultimately matter far less than the moral dilemma: whether to mire oneself in dull decency, like the nice nurse...
...hear Morrison courting this muse in the Pentecostal growls and incantations of Listen to the Lion on his 1972 album Saint Dominic's Preview, or personifying it on his new album in Village Idiot, whose protagonist "wears his overcoat in the summer/ And short sleeves in the winter time" but who is nourished by some secret spiritual serenity: "Don't you know he's onto something . . . / Sometimes he looks so happy/ As he goes strolling...
...dominate the beast of the Haitian army for seven months was no small thing for my government. It's like a lion in the circus. The trainer is there in the cage with the lion, and he tries to find every weak spot of the animal in order to maintain his control. But if he fights the lion with force and violence, the tamer will lose, because he does not have the same physical power. Therefore he has to use intelligence. Sometimes, though, the beast strikes at you for no reason...