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...named Lamb Chop, Charlie Horse, Hush Puppy and Wing Ding-who trade wisecracks with her, play geography and spelling games, croak weekly through 20-odd songs. Shari has a sure hand with animals (at home, in a Manhattan apartment with second husband Jeremy Tarcher, she keeps a collie, an owl monkey, a parrot, and a mink), and on the show she trots out everything from marmosets to white mice...
...shops (J. August and Briggs & Briggs) along Mass. Avenue. In the rather vague hierarchy of social desirability, the next group includes (alphabetically arranged) the Delphic, better known as "the Gas" (on Linden St. opposite the University Squash Courts), the Fly (on Holyoke Place in front of Lowell House), the Owl (Holyoke St. diagonally across from the I.A.B.), and the Spee (corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Sts.). Then come the Phoenix S. K. and the Iroquois (in adjoining buildings on Mt. Auburn St. facing Elsie's), the Fox (corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston), and the D.U. (above J. Press...
...week, and even occasional breakfasts in a few of the establishments. The charges for these meals are kept low--under a dollar--so that members can come as frequently as possible. A few of the Clubs offer special fringe benefits: the Gas boasts a private squash court, and the Owl floods its garden in winter to convert it into a seasonal hockey rink...
...round, owl-eyed oddball in hornrimmed glasses had never seen fit to set foot in Omaha before, but one day last week the town turned out as if he were a returning hero. The Junior Chamber of Commerce met him at Union Station; he was taken on a tour of Boys Town, paid his respects to the archbishop, visited a convent for errant girls, and was named Chief Charging Buffalo by the Omaha Indians. The excuse for all the excitement seemed as zany as the celebration itself: Stan Freberg, visiting comic-turned-adman from California, had come to town...
...crushing tragedy in the face of which his pragmatism is meaningless and his nihilism a cheerless thing. The agent of his undoing is the narrator of the book, Jacob Horner, one of the most fascinatingly dreadful characters to appear in a long time. He is self-described as "owl. peacock, chameleon, donkey and popinjay, fugitive from a medieval bestiary." In more modern terms, he is also a manic-depressive, and a fugitive from a psychotherapeutic institution called the Remobilization Farm...