Word: goldfishing
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...graying Aristocrat, and, of course, the "independent" Foreign Lady who can comment caustically on anything the home-bred figures miss. And, then, they all talk--Lord, how they talk: two straight hours of chatter as each character rises hungrily in turn, like a guppy at the food in a goldfish bowl, to strike his pose and horrify at least a good 1/9th of the audience...
...giddily on flexible metal poles, a porpoise who thinks he is a Chris-Craft drags a blonde around on water skis. There are four theaters, all with Broadway-size capacities and customers drifting freely from one to another see everything from first-run movies to geriatric vaudeville. There are goldfish races, jazz bands, a believe-it-or-not museum, ballroom dancing, a Kiddies Theater where nearly all performers are under 16, a diving bell for the observation of bottom life. All this begins on the New Jersey shoreline and seems to end somewhere near the coast of Spain...
...been brought up in the shadow of two traditional sculptors, the third Calder was a bit bored with the idea of becoming one himself. He started out to be an engineer. In the 1920s he began making statues (Josephine Baker, Helen Wills) in wire, produced a series of wire goldfish bowls in which the fish swam rhythmically back and forth at the turn of a crank. Out of his contact with Mondrian, he wanted to do "a Mondrian that moves." Thus the mobile...
...flattering letter asking permission to see the paintings, Barnes replied, masquerading as a fictitious secretary: "It is impossible at this time to show to Doctor Barnes your letter . . . because he gave strict orders not to be disturbed during his present efforts to break the world's record for goldfish swallowing...
...Goldfish Bowl. Minister Douglas (himself married for eight years) came across surprisingly few complaints about the two stock ministerial miseries: low salaries and goldfish-bowl living. On the other hand, one MW problem he did not expect to find with such frequency is the wife's own need for pastoral counseling...