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More often, however, the crowd ignores his faults and cheers him for all it is worth. "The most interesting thing about El Cordobés' bullfights is the crowd," says AntÓnio DÍaz-Cañabate, one of Spain's most fastidious critics. "They don't care at all about bullfighting. They want to go mad in the physical presence of a fetish...
...between a left and right or, as others suggest, a third alternative, a kind of safe middle ground. I suggest to you there is no left or right, only an up or down. Up to the maximum of individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism...
...French stage in 1946 with Quoat-Quoat, a bitter commentary on self-martyrdom, and in 19 other plays depicted the conflict of good and evil in a jarring mixture of scatological slang and 16th century classicism, in 1962 causing near riots when the most scandalous of all, The Ant in the Body, was consecrated at France's venerable Comédie-Française; of cancer; in Paris...
...nests contained various parasites, but the most important turned out to be another species of ants that live without concealment in the fortresses of the fierce fire ants and, by some mysterious influence, make their hosts support them in idle luxury. Usually, a few of the parasites cling to the fire ant queen by means of specially adapted mandibles that fit around her neck without hurting her. When a worker comes to feed her with regurgitated food, the parasites flut ter their antennae, apparently convey ing a compelling message that makes the worker feed the parasites instead of the queen...
...parasites that cling to the queen are females, and when she lays her eggs they lay eggs of their own. Dutifully, the fire ant workers care for both sets of eggs and raise the infant parasites just as if they were young of their own species. The parasites thrive while their considerate hosts all but work themselves to death taking care of them The fire ant economy is wrecked. The Healthy parasites mate conveniently in the nest and then fly away to subvert and weaken other fire ant colonies...