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...TIME Senior Writer Lance Morrow and Staff Photographer Neil Leifer, this week's cover story and picture essay on wildlife mark the culmination of seven adventurous weeks in East Africa. The assignment gave Morrow a chance to leave the routines of New York City behind and drift in the expanses of Kenya's plains and mountains, sampling "their freedom and magic spaciousness." Leifer had wanted to return to Kenya since 1984, when he snapped a runner there for TIME's picture preview of Olympic athletes. "Most of my assignments are somewhat predictable," says Leifer. "With animals, you never know...
...African bush, notes Morrow, is an "unforgiving place. The lame and the careless are taken down quickly." Morrow learned the cautious local custom: while walking in the bush, warn the animals of your approach; it is when they are surprised that they tend to attack. When out alone, Morrow took to bellowing old Irish songs to alert whichever beasts might be lurking nearby. One day he headed out for some fishing in the Aberdare Mountains. "I went down the game trail to a trout stream with my fly rod in hand, singing like the Clancy Brothers," recalls Morrow...
...Morrow; 384 pages...
...human nature. Throughout history, even in straitlaced cultures or eras of inhibition, sex is always the genie that cannot be % contained in the bottle. Its heedless imperatives mostly seize the young: the least disciplined, least knowledgeable and least likely segment of society to take any thought for the morrow or have any intimations of their own mortality. And there are those in any society who are forever young, or venturesome, or lonely or simply careless. To pause on the downhill slope of passion, to call time out from rapture and contemplate that this single act could be fatal, is only...
SENIOR WRITERS: Ezra Bowen, George J. Church, Gerald Clarke, Richard Corliss, Otto Friedrich, Paul Gray, Robert Hughes, Gregory Jaynes, John Leo, Ed Magnuson, Lance Morrow, Frederick Painton, Roger Rosenblatt, R.Z. Sheppard, William E. Smith, Frank Trippett...