Word: albino
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...opening ceremonies, crowds flocked into the Plaza de San Francisco to snap up Cobi dolls, key rings and T shirts, and catch a flash of history. In Barcelona, by contrast, life continued as usual. It flows and crests from dawn to dawn here: sunny Sunday mornings watching the albino gorilla in the zoo; early evenings in the stained-glass quiet of Santa Maria del Mar; late, late evenings with thrashing guitars at the penumbral nightclub KGB. Old women dance stately sardanes in front of the cathedral, and men in silk ties ride scooters to the office. Smiling pickpockets filch bank...
...that moves, and the results are sometimes extraordinary. Even if some of their visual jokes are stolen--like the Mad Biker blowing up bunnies with a hand grenade--they remain surprising and funny. The sequence in which H.I. is chased through a suburb by the police, a heaving armed albino convenience store clerk, and a pack of dogs deserves a special Oscar for Gratuitous Tension in a Feature Film...
That atmosphere cannot be found at Harvard proper. Studying in the dining halls is like getting trapped in a fluourescent bulb with a horde of albino slugs. Blinded by the reflection of trashy chandeliers off Pinesol-scrubbed linoleum, clutching a slowly melting styrofoam cup of tootsie-roll colored stomach acid, that is the dining hall experience...
MYOPIC MODERN HERO; Einstein on the beach without a paradigm; Steven Jay Gould gone off the deep end in search of the gecko and the albino gorilla--the name of this man is Mr. Palomar...
...Palomar takes us to the zoo in wandering pursuit of order. There, instead of a great white whale at the end of his epic, he stumbles on the world's only albino gorilla, Copito de Nieve, holding an old rubber tire to his chest...