Word: koala
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carts and porters available. Longest unassisted walk: 1,700 ft. Baggage, customs and immigration checkout: efficient. Hotels/Motels: none near by. Amenities: adequate. One restaurant (featuring steak or fish for U.S. $7.15), coffee lounge, two bars open 6 a.m. to midnight, two duty-free shops. Australian items: toy kangaroos and koala bears. Air-conditioned rest rooms equipped with showers. First aid available. Overall: efficient, convenient, Aussie-friendly...
...patterns of speech. Sometimes his dialogue snaps back like Noel Coward's; at others, he evokes P.G. Wodehouse's rococo style. It is a shame that this production fails to do him or Norman justice. A man who envisions Australia in winter as an army of gumbooted koala bears and who can find menace in his pajamas ("The tops are alright-it's the bottoms you've got to watch") must be lovable. Richard Benjamin is not. Too broad for the English idiom, he appears to have strayed from a road company of Fiddler...
...could get into billa-bongs [river pools] and replace the native species." Worse still, added John Lake, director of the Northern Territory's Department of Forestry, Fisheries, Wild Life and National Parks, "it would threaten our smaller native species-and that's equivalent to threatening the koala and the platypus...
Bear Circus by William Pène du Bois. 48 pages. Viking. $4.95. The author can do more with 26 koala bears in a gum tree, a plague of locusts and a pocketful of friendly kangaroos than you could imagine. Scenic but thin...
...After several sleepless nights (and the loss of several former good friends), I humbly present a koala named Coca, a tern named One-Good (his family includes identical twins named Left and Right), a panda named Monium-and a gnu named Watts...