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...sprinkling drops of his blood in the toilet, burying chunks of meat in the garden and, when the usual remedies failed, hiring 24 drum-banging exorcists, led by a hash-smoking pimp in a gold turban, for a two-day expulsion ritual. Unhappily, it involved slaughtering Ariane's pet goat and sprinkling its blood in every room. The Caliph's House ends with most obstacles surmounted - the jinns are gone, the books are allowed into the country untranslated - and the transplanted Londoners are much the better for it all. "There was a feeling of genuine achievement," Shah writes...
...Baby I step from the West Coast. And when you step on me, you gonna step on a goat...
...quite worked out how to regulate the creation of what are called chimeras, after the mythical creature that was part lion, part serpent, part goat. Canada last year passed a law that made it illegal to grow animal cells in a human embryo, or human cells in an animal embryo. Last spring the National Academy of Sciences was more lenient: it affirmed the potential research value of mixing human and animal cells, but drew the line at seeding any primates with human cells-at least for now-and urged that new experiments at least first be run past an expert...
...Albee's Lifetime Achievement award at this year's Tonys certified the restoration of his career. The international success of his 2001 play The Goat, or: Who Is Sylvia, and strong Broadway revivals of his Pulitzer Prize-winners A Delicate Balance and Seascape (which both have run longer than the original productions), assure that the playwright, now 76, will not be remembered exclusively as the kid who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (also smartly revived this year). In Seascape, the beach banter of an aging couple is interrupted by the appearance of two visitors from the sea: reptiles...
...clams, enough money to save umpteen families in Pakistan from freezing this winter, instead exchanged for the right to sit at a table and be serenaded by the godfathers of New Age Christmas music. There’s just something about the price of concerts that really yanks my goat. Granted, the number of college students paying said amount to be Steamrolled this holiday season will probably be zero, but I think the real question here is: why pay any amount of money to go to any live concert, regardless of how much you like the band...