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...sounds. Most of the furniture in the block-long lobby, which resembles the grand saloon of a beached ocean liner from some troubled dream, is pretty aggressive stuff. Near at hand, for instance, a pair of sharp, stainless-steel horns, curled forward like those of a fighting bull, rise improbably from the top rear edge of a medium-size white canvas cube. This contraption is placed at a chess table -- chess is a design element here -- and is evidently a sitting machine, a chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: An Ocean Cruise in Manhattan | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...geezer, who used to stay at the Royalton when it was a comfortable dump with furniture that couldn't fight back, now makes a mistake. As he sits, he tries to work too close to the bull. He swings his legs past the right horn, one of the chair's arms, and sinks down. A hideous ripping sound arrests all conversation. Does someone say, "Oh, the poor man"? Do paramedics dressed as bellboys come running with plasma and a stretcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: An Ocean Cruise in Manhattan | 12/19/1988 | See Source »

...team that wants to go to Maine is like a team that wants to go to Maine is like a team that wants to book passage on the Titantic or a bus ticket to Little Big Horn. [Maine Coach] Shawn Walsh is like Sitting Bull waiting for Custer."--B.C. Assistant hockey Coach Steve Cedorchuk, referring to teams that have to play Maine...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: National Polls Bleed Crimson | 12/16/1988 | See Source »

Alexander Pak, as the obsequious sub-angel responsible for the mix-up, cringes and whines in just enough of an English accent to suggest a salesman at Harrod's in the presence of a gold card. Slippery and oh so discreet, he makes an hilarious foil for Ducey's bull-in-a-chinashop Bostonian...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Heaven Sent | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

...Capitol Steps' humor is nonpartisan. "Our staffers are from both sides of the aisle. One guy swears that he's a Bull Moose," Newport said...

Author: By Peter S. Kozinets, | Title: Satire Troupe to Perform | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

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