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...story involves a shy visionary rabbit named Fiver whose precognition that real estate developers are about to wreck his warren leads sensible Hazel and tough old Bigwig to organize a group of dissidents and set out for Fiver's dimly perceived paradise, the Watership Down of the title. In time they are aided by a delightfully loony seagull (whose wonderful vocal characterization is supplied by the late Zero Mostel), who acts as scout and air arm in the climactic struggle against the fascist warren of the evil General Woundwort. Along the way there are troubles with the dogs, cats...
With that in mind, the 34-member AFL-CIO council, in a flurry of resolutions and statements, issued what amounts to the most ambitious set of legislative goals in memory. Noted one labor bigwig: "George and the boys are shooting for the works...
...trouble is a result of the Ford Administration's keen -and fully warranted-post-Watergate sensitivity to voter intolerance of even the whiff of scandal. The worst that had been alleged about Callaway was that in a variety of ways he had misused his muscle as a Government bigwig to promote and enlarge the $10 million Crested Butte complex that he and his brother-in-law own. But that was enough...
...social structure, full of dominant and submissive roles, populated with kings, queens and knaves. The butt of ceaseless fertility jokes turns out to be the master-or rather mistress-of birth control; when overcrowded or undernourished, the rabbit "resorbs" its embryos in utero. Adams' industrious Hazel, Fiver and Bigwig are pelt-deep fictions; in the real world, male rabbits are lallygagging drones. The does, contrary to those powder puffs in Watership Down, dig the burrows, run the homes and defend their young with Amazonian ferocity against such formidable enemies as the ferret, stoat and weasel...
Like Nixon, Kissinger has found that sports and politics have much in common. So a while back when East Germany was still in world soccer contention, he sidled up to a Soviet bigwig. "I'll bet I know one team that you don't want to win," said the smiling Kissinger. "East Germany, because if they win they will be more trouble than ever." The Russian roared and slapped Kissinger on the back for displaying such wisdom in the ways of this wacky world...