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...person). And no matter which way they drive, tourists will inevitably meet up with animals. Motoring out of Nairobi in a hired car recently, two U.S. schoolmarms spied a lion sprawled at the roadside, got out to cut off his claws for souvenirs. Just in time, the beast awoke, blasted an indignant roar at his company, and ambled off. The gibbering women were revived with brandy provided by a sympathetic passerby...
...Touch of the Heart. Zorach is still guided by the shapes of nature-the swirl of a grain, the contour of a stone-but his art is as emotional as it is visual. The Wild Beast has been domesticated, but with such an ever fresh simplicity that he cannot fail to touch the heart. "My children, my wife, the animals I know, the people who enter my life," says he, "things that are deeply a part of me and in which I see a relationship to life through movement and form and inner spirit-these are my material...
...tooting a B-flat French horn; they think the damn thing's a female"). But one of his most memorable triumphs occurred in the lion house of New York's Bronx Zoo. There one spring day he roared at a hungry and puzzled lion until the beast let out a howl "like something out of Frank Buck...
...Veneto. "Nobody is leaving! We are all here to stay!" he screams at the climax of these proceedings, which, while handsomely degenerate, also manage to be disappointingly dull. Dawn brings the epilogue, the endless end of Fellini's wretched world. In frozen horror, the revelers watch the apocalyptic "beast rise up out of the sea" in a fishing net-a sinister, obscene, colossal devilfish...
...front door is a' massive triptych of oak and brass with a 20-lb. knocker that sports Venus and Neptune hanging from the jowls of a metacanine beast. If you walk in hurriedly, you are instantly outdoors again in a huge courtyard, having passed through a small hall with flooring that is a mixture of Pennsylvania linoleum and Spanish tile. The courtyard is full of rosebushes, boxwoods, a grape arbor, and mirrors on an inland wall that reflect the sea. A statue of St. Francis stands in the center in a filled-in pond that once, in another era, brimmed...