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...ELEPHANT, by Slawomir Mrozek. A lion refuses to eat Christians, a Polish matron keeps a live revolutionary caged in her living room, civil servants begin to fly like eagles over Warsaw in the fantasy world of a brilliant young Polish satirist who pokes fun most often at the howling gap between reality and Communist Party renderings...
...well-heeled small-town matron, thinking a canary too common a pet, keeps a live revolutionary caged in her drawing room instead...
...machine, argue some, is promoting democracy by blurring the difference between rich and poor, since only a knowing eye can detect the difference between a Dior original and a copy. In fact, on a good-looking poor girl, the copy often looks better than the original on a rich matron. Some sociologists also find hope for international peace and understanding in the fact that men and women from all over the world are increasingly shucking their native costumes for lounge suits and little nothings...
...Waldorf-Astoria, more than 1,000 people jammed the Grand Ballroom for an Overseas Press Club luncheon, with women in mink heavily outnumbering the working newsmen. "Is she 40?" asked one matron, marveling at the youthful appearance of the tiny figure on the dais. "I can't believe it." (She is 39.) Commented another, "You don't have nails like that and do much around the house...
When Atheist Madalyn Murray, 43, blew into Stockton, Kans., there was no sign of the Welcome Wagon. Instead, she ran into smothering, if oblique, rejection as it became clear that there was nothing but trouble on her mind. The militant matron, whose suit against required school-prayer reading in Baltimore was upheld by the Supreme Court, had arrived to set up an atheist center. She also planned to enroll her son Garth, 8, in a nearby public school in order to sue for the removal of the Roman Catholic nuns who work there as teachers. The first night in town...