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...riots in the south of England. "I like what is tranquil and stable,'' he announced, and achieved tranquillity by hanging several of the leaders. He scoffed at earnest middle-class reformers, once received a group of them lounging on his sofa. While they talked, he pulled a feather out of a pillow, began to blow it about the room. "Try to do no good," Melbourne advised, "and then you won't get into any scrapes...
Think about it-a dirty puppet show. An evil puppet chains a lissome nude to a pillar and tickles her to death with a long pink feather. A vast bat helps tear the clothes off an undulating stripper, then flies away with her. A bawdy Balinese girl is seduced in a swimming pool. Bare-breasted beauties hang in bird cages over the audience, or parade around the stage, heaving, wiggling, sighing, shaking, and saucing the house...
...reservists being held on active duty the fact that Kennedy's plans to cut down on unemployment have failed?" and "Are you conscientiously representing the people who elected you to office, or are you merely appeasing all the 'too liberal' party majority in order to feather your own nest?" Finally, the 49th's General West had had enough. "Each meeting they had was a little bolder," he recalls. "I finally came to the conclusion that it was going beyond a free discussion. So I handed down an order banning any further meetings." Speaking of Rights. That...
...obstacle remains for the blissful couple--Prof. Mathiez ("a feather from the left wing"). Oozing onto the stage he exclaims, "You have nothing to lose but your brains--I mean chains." His threat is mitigated when it is revealed that he is really the father of Grendel, i.e. Grendel's mother's ("mother of Grendel, an anti-social type") husband. Charisma and Beowulf then sing of the joyous life they will have together as the defeated Mathiez writhes in the corner: "We'll just be petty bourgeoisl...
...commanding general personally issues the invitations. But Uelses is a controversial champion. "I'm antagonistic as hell,'' snorted ex-Record Holder Bragg last week. "Uelses isn't a great vaulter. All he did was perfect a gimmick." Bragg's complaint: Uelses uses a feather-light (5 Ibs.) flexible fiber-glass pole that-says Bragg -acts like a slingshot, catapulting the vaulter to heights he could not otherwise reach. (Countered Uelses: "Let Bragg do the talking. I'll do the vaulting.") An official of the International Amateur Athletic Federation darkly hinted that world records...