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Turnovers were the order of the day, however, and this time Gorgoni was the goat, coughing up the ball to Kurt Chapman...
...phrases are terse, the message mordant. It might also be credible if Singer had not just published Stories for Children, a collection of 36 works for the young, dating back to Zlateh the Goat in 1966. Without the original illustrations, his fictions stand revealed as something more than mere bedtime stories. Many are informed by Freudian insights; tale after tale demonstrates a strong desire to prod the audience-and in some small way retard or push forward the wheels of history...
...been to their 18th century forebears. Provence presented itself as a museum of the prototypes of strong sensation: blazing light, red earth, blue sea, mauve twilight, the flake of gold buried in the black depths of the cypress; archaic tastes of wine and olive, ancient smells of dust, goat dung and thyme, immemorial sounds of cicada and rustic flute-"O for a beaker full of the warm South!" In such places, color might take on a primary, clarified role. Far from the veils and nuances of Paris fog and Dutch rain, it would resolve itself into tonic declaration-nouns that...
Naturally. Landing finally at her brother's place, she decides that the cure for his glum raffishness must be pets on whom he can practice a responsible form of loving. Forthwith, she goes out and buys a menagerie of ducks, a goat, an affably neurotic dog and a pair of miniature horses that trot, puzzled but agreeable, through the house. It is as she tells her psychiatrist: "I'm going to get my balance. Then I can go back to being obsessed with my family...
Guiding itself as if by magic, the sleek orange and white missile rose from the sea and homed in on a concrete bunker on San Clemente Island, a goat-infested expanse of sand and brush about 75 miles off the coast of Los Angeles. In its first live test against a land target, the Navy's sea-launched cruise missile, known as the Tomahawk, scored a bull's-eye. The building erupted in a blazing fireball that sprayed concrete fragments hundreds of feet into the air and sent tremors reverberating through arms-control circles...