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Most of the acts are of a homier nature, however; their aim is to charm rather than amaze. Tarra the elephant plays a harmonica, hits a tambourine and dances atop a stool on two front feet; the Bertinis do figure eights and other intricate maneuvers on unicycles; and the two clowns turn out to be superb jugglers. One of the advantages of a small space-the single ring is only 42 ft. in diameter-is that the audience can become involved. At each show one of the clowns plucks children from their seats to lead the band. Though...
...Loose." Time after time, Johnson ignored the niceties of diplomatic language to tax his translators' skill with a homier sort of rhetoric. "There is an evil force loose in the world," he cried in Saigon while offering a toast to South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. "Its purpose is to get what we've got if it can. Another way to put it, as we would in my native hill country, is, 'The fox is loose, Mr. President. He's after the chickens and you live in the chicken house.' " Johnson grandly...
AMID the grind of the Machine Age, U.S. sportsmen still revere and enjoy the horse. Most of their excitement comes from racing (some 600 tracks with 50 million customers a year), but to a lot of Americans the horse means homier, less high-pitched forms of sport...
...nearly perfect performance. And his role is no snap. He must alternate between kindliness and deadliness, each with equal fervor, and yet without destroying the plausibility of either. Millard Mitchell, as a rugged marshal, is an old hand at being expert, as is bar-tender Karl Malden. Skip Homier and Richard Jeckel are the shot and kicked punks, and they seem to enjoy their work...