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The idea is not so sanguinary as it sounds. Becky has been trained as a "wrestling lion": she neither bites nor uses her claws. Her parents were used some years back to protect the deer compound. Becky will likely conduct her nocturnal patrols on a long leash. Elgin admits that...
At noon, many people gathered at the Grand Hotel, a pink elephant of a building with a view over the port (impressively clean) and the Royal Palace (depressingly severe). The reason was simple. The U.S. Population Institute served a delicious free lunch there: marinated river salmon with sweet mustard, herring...
Whenever a joke fad becomes entrenched, the small Los Angeles publishing house of Price/Stern/Sloan issues a slender paperback containing a sampling of the humor. Thus, in 1953, the firm published Droodles, a collection of simple line drawings with funny captions; in 1963 it put together The Elephant Book, offering the...
In the 30-odd years since Salvador Dali separated from the surrealist movement, he has leaped from one extravagant triviality to the next, combining the roles of circus freak, spangled elephant and Barnum himself. The performance is tinted with sadness. Dali is undoubtedly the last of the great dandies, but...
Plautus novam fabulam dat." Wise woman. The old dramatic farceur manufactured situations that have kept audiences laughing for 23 centu ries. This is not news on New York's Via Magna Alba. Ten years ago, Burt Shevelove's and Larry Gelbart's free adaptation of Plautus'...