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...Insurance, a purple piglike monster with yellow wings and an orange cockscomb gobbles up dollars. The headline: "The Money Muncher. Starve it." Computer Communication's ads feature another cash-chewing nightmare: "The money-munching number cruncher." Other zoological promotions include Lee clothing (a lion), Sony (a duck), Bemis Co. (an alligator) and Honeywell (a bear...
...reason. In eight cases out of ten, asserts Astrologist Linda Goodman (Sun Signs), people who were born under Aries, Gemini, Libra, Sagittarius, Aquarius and Pisces will be late most of the time. A Leo will be punctual and tardy in equal measure. "No one," she says, "tells the lion what...
...savage. Instead he has become a symbol, a stick with which "civilized" man beats himself. Has the city become a jungle? The Noble Savage's jungle is a city in the peaceable kingdom of man and nature. Does civilized man murder for sport? The native, like a lion, kills only what he needs. Is the intellect responsible for evil? The natural man does not think with his brain but with his glands-and by his actions exhibits a moral vigor...
...perfectionist, perpetually unsatisfied editor, Burnett was inarticulate on the podium but superb on paper. Armed with a stubby black pencil, his hands and shirt often smudged with lead, he worked over copy until it passed his tough standards. His staff sometimes called him Leo the Lion-and not always affectionately. "I've seen him throw away campaigns that a client had accepted just because he had come up with a better idea," says Leonard Matthews, the agency's president. Burnett championed the "Chicago School of Advertising," which abhors slick promotions. He once told his staff: "We want...
From time to time, the camera breaks away from the center ring to inspect clowns in senescence, brittle little men who recall Falstaff's lament: "How ill white hairs become a fool." In the midst of unabashed gaiety, Fellini ushers in bitterness: an Italian lion tamer who trains his beasts in German because "it is the only human language that they understand." The film's zenith is a funeral staged con brio-the spectacular obsequies of a clown, his hearse drawn by men in horse suits, his widow a clown with pendulous breasts, the orator a grotesque...