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...heightened interest in animal medicine been more emphatically displayed than at the annual meeting of the American Animal Hospital Association (A.A.H.A.), which attracted some 2,500 vets from the U.S. and 15 other countries to Boston this year. The conventioneers were shown everything from daily birth control pills for fecund bitches and orthopedic braces for dachshunds (whose elongated proportions make them prone to backaches) to monster gas-filled balloons that can deliver anesthetics during surgery on horses. Still, the greatest interest was stirred by the plethora of scientific papers underscoring a little-known facet of the pet craze...
There is, though, one important way in which Jabberwocky differs from the earlier film. That is in its almost total lack of humor. The fecund inventiveness, the marvelous pace and timing of Grail, the curious blend of earthiness and delirium that gave it its unique place in the history of modern screen comedy, are missing in Gilliam's work...
...THESE PRAYERS didn't help much, for the future refused to pan out the way old Tom Murray planned. To be sure, his children married well, made money, and had lots of children of their own, even by the most fecund Celtic standards. (Al Smith, a fine Irish buddy of the clan whose only flaw was his persistent habit of losing the presidency, would not even swim in the family's well-populated swimming pool: "I might swallow a baby," he explained.) But the legions of fine children did not see things the same way their parents...
...show, skillfully boiled down by the Smithsonian's curator of 20th century painting, Walter Hopps, from Rauschenberg's enormous and dispersed output of combines, paintings, silk screens, sculptures and prints, it becomes plain that there has not been much antiformalist American art that Rauschenberg's prancing, careless and fecund talent did not either hint at or directly provoke. It is to him that is owed much of the basic cultural assumption that a work of art can exist for any length of time, in any material (from a stuffed goat to a live human body), anywhere (on a stage...
Separated. Leonard Bernstein, 58, America's fecund musical superstar; and Chilean-born Felicia Montealegre, 54, now appearing on Broadway in Poor Murderer; after 25 years of marriage, three children. It is a trial separation; no divorce plans have been announced...