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Stuffed animals, while accounting for no more than half of that figure, remain the firm's obvious pride and joy. At Steiff's toymaking factories each animal is stitched and stuffed with care. Material for coats is selected to simulate real fur. In sewing on eyes and mouths, skilled workers take pains to ensure that each animal wears a distinctive expression. Some animals are equipped with voice boxes that enable lions to roar, bears to growl and donkeys to bray; many have movable heads and limbs. The continuing purpose is to make them lovable as well as lifelike...
...nonsensical, the U.S. electronics firm of Honeywell, which has a plant near Frankfurt, printed new calling cards introducing their executives by name only. Many student demonstrators now disdain to address university rectors as Magnifizenz and deans as Spektabilitat, Hans-George Schnitzer, whose own title is Bundesvorsitzender des Fachausschusses fur Umgangsformen-federal chairman of the Expert Committee for Good Behavior-is urging his countrymen to "recognize only those titles earned academically or by public election...
Insane or not, it was certainly explicit. At the preview, a large, coffinlike object, covered with black fur and with a slit across the lid, was rolled onto the museum floor. Out from its pink, uterine interior stepped Phyllis Kronhausen, 39, dressed in a see-through minidress and nothing else. Neither she nor a stark-naked violinist offered much competition to the art, which included erotic Indian sculpture, a Guinea fertility goddess, a Rembrandt etching of the artist and his wife disporting in a four-poster bed, a Picasso engraving of a couple copulating, and a vast variety of dildos...
...Merry Mount is anathema to the Puritans because it is an enclave of happiness, fostering a live-and-let-live philosophy, indulging in such rites as dancing around the Maypole. Its leader, Thomas Morton, flauntingly lives with the daughter of the local Indian chief, and carries on a thriving fur trade with the Indians by the dangerous practice of selling them firearms and liquor...
Davis is beguilingly guileful as a runaway slave who changes hands like a dirty dollar. He is captured by a band of Indians, who unload him on Fur Trapper Lancaster as "payment" for the load of skins they steal from him. The redskins, in turn, are zapped by a batch of bounty hunters, who earn their living by selling Indian scalps for $25 apiece, and Davis gets himself captured by these private enterprisers. Their queen is Shelley Winters, a refugee from a fancy house. She nurses her stogie on a brass bed in the covered wagon...