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...English ladies. To transport them in style he has laid on a huge retinue of servants and an elephant. "An old, old animal, an ancient, ancient animal, plodding on almost back into the past," is how the man who made the film describes the creature. But even this great beast and the train of servants stretching out behind it are reduced to insignificance by the featureless rocks that tower above them along...
...accomplishes this with a restrained flourish. When Godfather Drosselmeir fixes the broken clock, "it came back to life and made everything happy by whirring and striking and singing merrily," Fritz receives a hobby horse gallops around the table a few times and "on dismounting he remarked that the beast was rather wild, but it didn't matter, he's break him in." As the Nutcracker's hussars battle the mice the dynamics of the struggle are special: the guns fire and "Marie saw sugar balls landing in the serried ranks of the mice, who were spattered with white powder which...
Baby Fae brought out defenders of man, beast and press. But who was defending Baby Fae? There was something disturbing-subtly, but profoundly disturbing-about the baboon implant. It has nothing to do with animal rights or the Frankenstein factor or full disclosure. It has to do with means and ends...
...result of its triumph before more than 50 fans at Blodgett Pool, the seven-time defending Eastern Seaboard Champion Harvard squad (now 2-0) reaffirmed its position as the Beast of the East and served notice to all that it's bigger and better than ever...
There is something about driving in general that seems to bring out the beast. "It's almost a game to see how many people can make it through a yellow or red light," says Steven Beebe, a professor of communications at the University of Miami. In New York City, it is more than a game; the number of pedestrians hit by cars, many of them running lights or crowding a curve, runs to 15,000 a year. In Houston, where traffic altercations periodically lead to violence, the Chronicle offered a few friendly tips: "Try to release your anger...