Word: gargantuas
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...Greatest Show on Earth," the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, started by his five uncles in 1884; of a stroke; in Brussels. North took over the debt-spangled show after the death of his last uncle, John Ringling, and modernized it with such attractions as Gargantua the Great, the "vehemently vicious" 550-lb. gorilla that drew more than 40 million circusgoers. In 1956, North folded the big top and reincarnated the show for new arenas of the air-conditioned...
Stories about Johnson's coarse man ners could ruffle the pages of Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel. The wildest is repeated by Coates Redmon, a Washington journalist and widow of Hayes Redmon, a member of Johnson's White House staff: "One day Bill [Moyers] telephoned him [Hayes] to come quick to the President's bedroom. I think Lynda Bird was in there, and Mrs. Johnson, and Marie Fehmer was taking dictation. The President was lying on his side in his bed and facing the group. There was a nurse on the other side, the three television...
...dealer lent him a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud for ins seven-week stay. Between socializing and vocalizing, Pavarotti jetted to Los Angeles for one of his periodic jousts with Johnny Carson on the Tonight show. When he had free time, he took to the tennis court. A surprisingly graceful Gargantua, he is quick on his feet and gets about as much English on the tennis ball as he does into his conversation. "I gave him the toilet paper," he said of one opponent, meaning that he took him to the cleaner...
...before the neighborhoods get a little too ambitions they should realize that rather than having nocked off one giant, what they have actually done is simply stunned a Gargantua while arousing two others--Harvard and the City Council. These two sleepers when united with the Kennedys could pull off anything--even to the point of bringing at least one form of a museum back to the Square...
...will be doing Brecht's "The Measures Taken," a production that originated in Martin Andrucki's Humanities 96v seminar on politics and theatre. Heading in an opposite direction from Brecht's political consciousness. Eliot House will be presenting Jean-Louis Barrault's "Rabelais," a modern adaptation of Rabelais's "Gargantua" and termed by one of the production staff "a dramatic obscenity, or to be more subtle about it, a dramatic game in two parts." Dunster House, too, may well create a stir with its production of the success de scandale "Saved" by Edward Bond...