Word: hippopotamus
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...mushroom dances of the Nutcracker Suite, the hulking, saurian epic of Stravinsky's Rite, the eerie, fantastic Night on Bald Mountain) are so beautifully filled that they may leave callous critics whispering incredulously to themselves. Others (Mickey's Sorcerer's Apprentice, the hilarious ostrich and hippopotamus ballets) set a new high in Disney animal muggery. Others (the wave and cloud sequences of Bach's Fugue, and a queer series of explosive music visualizations performed by a worried and disembodied sound track, posing diffidently on the screen like a reluctant wire) recall the abstract cinemovies made about...
...self-thwarting little mushroom, who tries to do the Chinese Dance from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, but can't keep up with the big mushrooms; Ben Ali Gator, premier danseur of an ostrich ballet set to Ponchielli's corny Dance of the Hours; Susan, the hippopotamus ballerina whose blimplike cavortings in a pas de deux with Ben Ali Gator literally bring down the house in a wreck of flying plaster; Bacchus and his donkey Jacchus, who trip and roll through the Grant Woodland scape of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony...
...small Jouet des Plots, stitching along the west coast of Africa; his business was to buy up wild animals for the circuses, zoos, rich amateurs of Europe. He acquired, among other beasts, a panther, a magnificent, tame, young lion, a buffalo, a young elephant, a hyena, a dwarf hippopotamus, two little sacred pythons whose delight was to weave themselves upon his ankles. The buffalo broke loose in the hold, one of the chimpanzees piteously died. Ashore Demaison ran into snake-sorcerers, a terrific flogging scene, a yellow fever epidemic. Demaison gives such incidents their due; but he makes his less...
...breeze did not drop, and for the first time on our voyage we experienced the effect of pitching and rolling combined, a great silence fell upon the ship. . . . The little Niger hippopotamus ... lay down with his head flat on the deck, and ceased to think. His great red eyes looked through me at I know not what. The fawn, the antelopes, and the river-hogs swayed on their cloven, pointed hooves as they tried to maintain their balance. No pride in their eyes now. . . . The buffalo was.swaying in his crate, with a wandering look in his eye and ears laid...
...rare occasions, he is taken unannounced into the public world. In the hope that he had inherited his father's passionate interest in "biology," he was taken to Uyeno Park Zoo one day last autumn. There he observed that the hippopotamus, unlike his toy hippo at home, was supplied with a tail; also (there being no one with the audacity to hinder his demi-divine will) he fed the sheep to satiety on small pieces of paper...