Word: lizardly
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...also hand built by Italy's Ghia, which was first shown last year-a simple, squarish grille, sweeping lines, and not too much cluttering chromium trim. But the Dodge is a brand-new car. Designed as a two-place sports car, it hugs the road like a lizard, features four headlights and a horizontal, propellerlike rub rail sweeping entirely around the car. Chrysler has no idea of mass-producing its new cars, but it did say that some of the graceful designs may find their way into future Chrysler products...
They go to Mexico to hunt lizards with an eagle, a passion of Thea's that Augie scarcely questions. While they train the eagle, love waxes. But the eagle is a craven; when a lizard bites him, he flaps off. Love wanes as Thea takes to collecting snakes and Augie takes to poker. It dies completely after Augie spends a night with Stella, a beautiful tart...
Sage Disbelief. In this best of all possible worlds, Frut is frustrated only by his coy fiancée, who keeps stalling him off despite his stirring performances of the mating dance. Restless, he wanders to the edge of the tableland and has an experience no lizard has had before. A huge, two-legged, two-armed Thing not only picks Frut up and then drops him, but the Thing draws on the ground with a stick, making those mysterious signs-a heart pierced by an arrow-the origin of which even the Sages of the tableland are hard...
...fastidious snake god refuses to eat him because Frut has been touched by human hands. Instead, he tells Frut the way to the Blue Cape, a lizard Utopia where tablelanders and creekers live together in sweet reasonableness. After a harrowing journey across sun-baked flatlands, Frut gets to the classless paradise...
Scoffing Educators. Frut finds that gods, as well as classes, have been abolished. Just unnecessary nonsense, Blue Cape's educators explain. Doesn't any Blue Caper ever kill another? Frut asks. Why should he? ask the educators. Is it reasonable for a lizard to kill a fellow lizard? Born reasonable, Blue Capers pool their supplies and their work, rarely bother much with personal names since any Blue Caper is by nature and desire much like any other Blue Caper. When Frut begins shuffling into his mating dance for a female Blue Caper, she says...