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...immobility is attributed to the entire female constitution by analogy with the supposed immobility of the ovum.... In actuality, each month the ovum undertakes an extraordinary expedition,...an unseen equivalent of going down the Mississippi on a raft or over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Ordinarily too, the ovum travels singly, like Lewis or Clark, in the kind of existential loneliness which Norman Mailer usually admires. One might say that the activity of ova involves a daring and independence absent, in fact, from the activity of spermatozoa, which move in jostling masses, swarming out on signal like a crowd...
With that, Jim understood his unexpected popularity. People were mistaking him for Producer George Schlatter. And with good reason. Both men are built along the lines of a barrel; both have dark brown hair and mustaches and beards. So the case of mistaken identity persisted. There are more than 200 people involved in each Laugh-In, and every now and then, some of them would come to Jim to discuss their problems-personal and production. With that kind of help, Jim managed to deliver more than 140 pages of copy...
...censor will accept one line and not another is often a matter of metaphysical subtlety. Carol Burnett describes a hassle during a recent taping session for her comedy show: "I'm in a nudist colony wearing nothing but a barrel. An interviewer asks me what kind of recreation nudists have on Saturday nights...
Over the Cracker Barrel. Ruggles has had to struggle harder than any other composer for answers to 20th century musical questions. Nobody else's methods-not Stravinsky's, Bartok's, Webern's or Berg's-would suffice. And so, what he worked out for himself was a tone-clustered, highly contrapuntal and dissonant style. By his self-imposed rules, no note in a melodic line could be repeated until eight or so others had intervened. His work has an atonal quality that often sounds like Schoenberg's middle-period serialism. Yet Ruggles...
...musical doubting and questioning does not mean that Ruggles lacks a ready supply of answers when he sits chatting with visitors in the living room or over the cracker barrel at the country store. Salty and profane as a whaler captain, he has a mean word for everybody. Composer Deems Taylor? "What a punk!" His Mississippi steamboat-captain grandfather, Charles Henry Ruggles? "A terrible old tyrant-he had to be captain of the ship all the time." His father Nathaniel? 'Drunk all the time." His boyhood hero, Actor Richard Mansfield? "A fine actor but a mean bastard," To this...