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...shocking the sensibilities of stuffy sons who want them to come and live in Darien. Novelist Stone believes firmly in the outlandishness of the usual. An eagle grounds itself in disgust after colliding with a construction workers' crane, and the locals try to fly the bird on a leash. The "X-er"-the man whose job it is to paint big Xs on the windows of condemned buildings-feels himself the personification of doom, gets so worked up over X-ing out so many Fifth Avenue mansions and pleasant brownstones that he has a nervous breakdown. The most helpless...
...canine counterpart, portrayed by a swaybacked, dewlapidated Italian stage dog called Caligola. The spectator is continually reminded that inside the dog there is the villain, and the recurrent after-image of Ustinov doing all those doggy things is unfailingly good for an arf. Actor Ustinov, held in leash by Director Ladislao (Marcelino) Vajda, does pretty well for a mere human being, but of course he is not nearly so funny as Caligola. The dog wags Vajda's Tail...
...wobbly whippersnappers are flung into the river, washed over a waterfall. When at last they struggle ashore, pup and cub are alone in the great north woods, far from human help but entirely too close for comfort-they are tied together by a six-foot leather leash...
...getting honey, the pup is getting stung. At night, when the pup settles down for some shut-eye on a nice soft patch of grass, the bear climbs the nearest tree. Dawn finds the dog's muzzle sleeping blissfully on the grass, while his rump, caught in the leash, sleeps fitfully about 18 inches off the ground...
...ranging from the romantic (La Belle Dame Sans Merci) to the atonal (Third Symphony), won prizes and international acclaim, and whose arrangements, under various pseudonyms, of everything from sacred music to Shortnin' Bread earned him a living; of head injuries after he tripped over a dog's leash; in Manhattan...