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...play reinforces my earlier prejudice against the undisciplined use of rock music in a non-musical play. The music was incongruous in context and dragged on through six consecutive ballads (each thoroughly modernized). Then, about a dozen men, the Satyrs, rushed in-bare-cheated with funny fur-trimmed pedal pushers-to dance a lascivious, arm-flailing ritual. I felt suddenly nostalgic for the famous sheepshearing scene in The Winter's Tale that I always had been told was life affirming and graceful. I tried to single out Perdita and Florizel in the crowd and my eye fell on them gleefully...
...Fur Coats and Oilmen
Ecologists are waging valuable campaigns across the nation against the fur coats popular so long as an expensive status symbol, especially those of the young sea otter, who is clubbed to death by entrepreneurs seeking to obtain their valuable white furs. Despite a public outery which forced Canada's Parliament to pass weak legislation which managed to regulate the murders last year, the pressure on reluctant Prime Minister Trudeau to outlaw the profitable thoug grisly business continues to build...
...solution that would muffle the inter national protests. Henceforth, the Ministry of Fisheries ruled, seal hunters on the ice floes of the Gulf of St. Law rence would kill and skin only "beat ers" - month-old pups whose fur had turned a less-appealing brown and whose eyes no longer reflected the same degree of trust and innocence. And because the beaters could swim, went the reasoning, the St. Lawrence hunters would have to use guns, not clubs, to take their limit of 50,000 pups. "Those who protested the kill ings," said a bored Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau...
...cold. In a canyon by moonlight she gathered a handful of moose moss and an armload of wija grass. Not a feast, but enough for the likes of Sam. He banged away at 'La Primavera' while she cooked Keeble meatballs with garlic and moss. Delicious AND good for your fur...