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...going to win: "My young bulls have the taste of first place, and they like it. We're going to win the pennant." The Dodger fans' answer: a rootin'-tootin' cavalry blast on dozens of trumpets carried into the ballpark, followed by a full-throated bellow from the stands: "CHARGE...
...pigtail, goofy clowning and hillbilly charm, Comedienne Burnett seems to have escaped from a cartoonist's drawing board. Whether she is quaffing one goblet of mead too many, chewing the wax grapes in her corsage and spitting out the seeds, or opening her mouth to grapefruit size to bellow that she's Shy, Actress Burnett makes her musical comedy debut a choicely comic event...
...rehearsal with the cast or orchestra. And few but La Scala's sharpest critical ears detected that MacNeil speaks no Italian, has to learn his roles by rote. Said MacNeil modestly: "There isn't much acting required; it's a kind of stand-there-and-bellow opera...
HENDERSON, THE RAIN KING (341 pp.) -Saul Bellow-Viking...
Without some such mental preamble, the saga of Eugene Henderson, the quixotic hero of Saul (The Adventures of Augie March) Bellow's new novel, is apt to seem little more than the portrait of one of nature's fall guys, a well-heeled goof. When readers first meet Henderson, he is (a) rich, (b) not a knight, (c) 55, (d) has nothing to do except raise pigs as a hobby and dream about Sir Wilfred Grenfell and Albert Schweitzer. Suddenly he acquires "a form of madness . . . the pursuit of sanity." He flees his wife and family...