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...twelve solid days in an extraordinary national preoccupation with what the Daily Mail called "the most celebrated eagle of his day." Britons sent in dozens of suggestions for recapturing Goldie: someone urged that he be brought to earth with a tranquilizing dart; another thought up an elaborate scheme to float a balloon filled with anesthetic gas and baited with thin pieces of meat so that the eagle's talons would prick the bubble, causing a knockout drop. Still others saw a profit in Goldie's exploits. Britain's wideawake malted-milk firm rushed out advertisements urging "Give...
...Herman Melville's The Confidence Man. Gogol's confidence man is Chichikov (Vladimir Belokurov), an on-the-make bureaucrat who haggles with miserly and drunken aristocrats for their dead serfs (listed on the government tax rolls as alive) so that he may pose as a propertied man, float a mortgage loan, and make a fashionable marriage. Just as murder is war in miniature, Gogol's Chichikov is a comic common cold symbolizing all the perennial tragic sicknesses of Russia-but not in this hammy production. It looks as though the Soviet Establishment decided that when a masterpiece...
...uncertainty about the future." K. P. Goenka, president of the powerful Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, charged that past 16 months have brought "no substantial additions to any major industry," and G. L. Mehta, chairman of the Indian Investment Center, complained that so many efforts to float stock issues have flopped that "underwriters have become undertakers...
...ancestors of today's kinetic op art. And critics are far from convinced that all the ideas have been mined from his Bride, etc., the first industrial collage, a 5-ft. by 9⅔-ft. sandwich of windowpane within which snipped tin and copper forms (the suitors) float without overlapping, obediently awaiting the operation of a rotating coffee grinder that can, yet never will, unite them with the abstract floating bride...
Comments often float around to the effect that "wonks" or "grinds" will "get theirs" when medical school application time rolls around...