Videos on YouTube from 1966 show Ms. Makeba, with her musicians in jackets and ties, performing in an elegant long dress that also happens to have a leopard-skin pattern: supper-club Africana that's at home on any continent.
"All night I had a leopard on my brain.
He has a leopard tissue cozy: not a leopard-print container, but what looks like a toy stuffed animal around his tissue box.
She had a leopard printed jacket -- yes, it was worn with black trousers -- but she returned to her old ways on Wednesday, dressed totally in black.
The Edun theme was "safari punk," and a digital zebra print meshed surprisingly well with baggy leather trousers, while a kilt lifted from the 1980s had a leopard print inside the pleats.
Soon, I'm in with the bank's senior financial investor, who has a leopard-print belt that matches her handbag.
Painted French blue, it has a leopard-print seat and a plastic tube fastened on back, the perfect container for skis, architectural drawings or long-stemmed roses.
At our house the only visible indicator of my Jewishness is a mezuzah: a small, ritual capsule that Jews affix to their doorposts (ours has a leopard-print design and came from Paris).
Once, he said, when Norton's apartment was shown, it had a leopard-skin spread on the bed and a horse with a clock in its stomach that he'd won in Coney Island.
The obstacles to their happy ending are legion: he's engaged (being married the next day, in fact), he says he's not interested, she has a pet leopard that she wants to drive to Connecticut, and the family dog steals an important dinosaur bone.
It made me wonder if snow leopards have a taste for joggers as well.
