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...paddle steamer with high, spindly funnels lies composedly beached in a red desert. Saplings enclose it; years ago the river vanished. From a circus cage on wheels, a bearded paterfamilias glowers, serenaded by a man in tails (on cornet), a bus boy (French horn), a girl in evening dress (violin), and a child perched in a potted shrub, tapping on a drum. A scattering of vacant chairs inhabiting an empty, silent landscape marks the spot where a party died. Philip C. Curtis, 63, is possibly the only Surrealist now living in Arizona. But Surrealism is a term he uses "quietly...
...last seven months I, a free wild man, have been locked in P.O.W. camps. No living creature can survive in a cage. In my flight to freedom, I leave behind a million Brothers and Sisters in the P.O.W. prisons of Quentin, Soledad, Con Thier...
...monuments include Briggs Cage, Briggs Hall, an endowed chair, an oil painting in the Freshman Union, and a marble bust in the Faculty Room of University Hall (a bronze copy is enshrined at Agassiz...
...most ominous developments of all took place last week in the secret sessions in the U.S. Capitol's elegant Room H208 (which has become known to some congressional staffers as "the tiger cage"). As clumps of industry and labor lobbyists waited outside, the House Ways and Means Committee put on a display of protectionist logrolling that would have done credit to the authors of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. What emerged was an inflationary, consumer-be-damned bill that could reverse the whole U.S.-led postwar movement toward freer trade...
...escape from the same simian world where humans are treated as lower animals and stumble onto an underground civilization of humanoid atom-bomb freaks. These thermonuclear trippers are about to launch civilization's last A-bomb against their ape rivals. Worse, they have Charlton Heston stashed in a cage so he cannot thwart their plan. Franciscus and Heston try to fight their way out, but alas, fate and the scriptwriters conspire against them...