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...tells her lover Erland that she suffers from a recurring dream in which she is pursued by two dogs. When she tells him good-bye after a visit to his apartment, she stands before a desk decorated with two harmless looking china dogs. But the next day at a banquet during which Gertrud discovers that Erland has heartlessly boasted of his latest conquest, she mentions the dream again to a friend as they talk in front of a tapestry depicting beauty besieged by the hounds (photo...
Trading on an endless round of football yarns, Karras is one of the most sought-after speakers on the jock banquet circuit. Last year his 80 appearances before everyone from "Boy Scouts to boozed-up slobs" earned him more than the $35,000 he made with the Lions (a salary that the team is contracted to pay him through the next season). "We ugly guys are taking over," he says. "If they would stop using those pretty quarterbacks in TV ads and get some of us lugs in, they'd sell more hair tonic. Most people are lugs." Advertisers...
...will be midnight or after when you reach your destination, the national convention of the Young Democrats in Hot Springs, Ark. You were supposed to speak at noon, but the Senate was voting on campaign financing, and you could not get away. They put you over to the evening banquet, but you could not make that, either. Here you are, Hubert Humphrey, age 60, twice a mayor, a national political figure since 1948, four times a Senator, for four years Vice President, once your party's candidate for the presidency. You have been through all this before-the long...
...satisfaction over his successful trek is a bit diluted by some of the shows he sees. Still, he cannot abandon the belief that theater "is the noblest of arts, a metaphysical ritual, an unbound volume of erotica, a childlike festival of clowns and kings, a never-surfeiting banquet for the eye, the ear and at times the soul...
JUST $500 used to be enough to buy an ambassadorship. Now it can't even get you a seat in the front row." When Comedian Bob Hope drops that line on the political banquet circuit, it is always good for a few chuckles, especially from that shadowy elite whose six-figure donations keep America's political campaign machinery operating. Call them fat cats, angels, big-money men-by any name, they are all but indispensable to a serious candidate for the presidency...