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...song that contains the ugly refrain: "Franz Josef the pig, Franz Josef the old pig, Franz Josef the lusting swine." When a local prosecutor charged that the song was insulting to Strauss, the band is said to have retorted that Franz Josef was the name of its mascot-a cardboard cutout of a pig-and that "any similarity to a living swine is purely coincidental...
...they take their places in front of a table on the sixth floor of an aging warehouse located just north of Chicago's Loop and set to work on candidates in the seven-to-16 boys' category. Spread out before them on a cluttered table are two cardboard boxes, one filled with snapshots still to be examined, the other with pictures that have passed the first test. At their feet is an even larger box loaded with rejects...
Police blamed the trouble on "Skollies," or roughnecks. But few could doubt that underlying the rage in Cape Town was the cruel dilemma of the "in-betweeners," the plight of the coloreds, who are also imprisoned by apartheid. In their segregated ghetto, where whitewashed bungalows sit beside cardboard shacks, political avenues are closed to them; few have any sense of direction. Says Poet Adam Small, who lives near Elsies River: "People here are in limbo; they just don't care any more. Their children are bitter and ready for violence. Like the sand of the Cape flats, apartheid lies...
...designed a kitchen, this would be it. Everything is dingy, dirty, tattletale gray. The refrigerator, the table, the washer-name it-it is dusty and either sags or tilts. At stage left is the adjoining bedroom, crammed with cardboard boxes...
...takeoff on 1930s movie musicals. Using Grauman's Chinese Theater as aspic, it captures the clichés, the formulas, the juicily idiotic emotional punch lines of the period. Singing with slyly ironic comic abandon, Jeanette MacDonald (Peggy Hewett) fondles a life-size cardboard cutout of Nelson Eddy, never the most mobile of performers...