Word: feastings
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...growled. "We orangutang but ewe did not answer," the zookeeper replied tsetsely. After a halfhearted tour of the cages, he returned to headquarters, sank wearily into a chair and, realizing it was too late to save the animals, told the garrison commander to allow his troops to continue the feast. "As a matter of fact," said Ankrah, "as long as you're up, get me a Grant's gazelle...
...Feast. As the car plowed through a snowstorm along the turnpike, Rubinstein gaily sang along with the car radio in a voice that sounded like a gargling cello. He pulled out a great smokestack of a cigar, passed it beneath his nose, pierced one end, lit it, puffed three times, closed his eyes, leaned back and sighed, "Ahhh, good!" Basking in a lazy curl of smoke, he mused: "At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes...
...fully exposed to insect invasion. Then the patient entomologist settled down for a decomposition watch. Within five minutes, the first flesh-eating flies arrived to begin feeding on the unscreened piglets. During the next few weeks, 522 species of tiny morticians -most of them insects-arrived to join the feast. Among them, Payne identified "3 phyla, 9 classes, 31 orders, 151 families and 359 genera." By the eighth day, the only piglet parts that had not been consumed were bones, cartilage and dry skin...
Amidst its famine of pleasures, War Lord affords a feast of anachronisms, the choicest assigned to his lordship's quarrelsome sibling (Guy Stockwell, brother of Dean), who ends one clash with the withering retort: "I hate your knightly guts." Scenarists Millard Kaufman and John Collier share credit for this adaptation of The Lovers, a somber play by Leslie Stevens that lasted less than a week on Broadway. The movie version runs on and on and on, but proves nothing whatever about the survival of the fittest...
...week of Thursday, Nov. 4, as the moment to make his presidential intentions known to a presumably breathless world. The mystery part was a bit thin (few observers doubt that De Gaulle will run for a second term), but the history was laid on thick. Nov. 4 is the feast day of St. Charles Borromeo (1538-84), an Italian cardinal and church reformer possessed of a Gaullist profile, an imperious manner, and a bent for catechizing. Moreover, St. Charles, like his namesake, was once the target for an assassination attempt -by a disgruntled monk whose order he had attempted...