Word: rhino
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...animals for "adoption," although they stay in the park. You can make someone a "Brookfield parent," or become one yourself, by donating money to help the hard-pressed zoo keep going. Prices vary. Parental rights, of a sort, to the Siberian tiger go for $1,800 a year; the rhino costs $2,000. Says Joyce Gardella, a Brookfield official: "Right away we were out of hairy-nosed wombats." Price per wombat...
...small cast in Phoenix, God has a cast of thousands including people planted in the audience, characters out of Tennesee Williams' Streetcar Named Desire, several playwrights and Allen himself (an offstage voice, don't get too excited). If Phoenix is a bit unsubtle, God is a bull rhino in a package store. A more insane play could hardly be imagined...
...course, the exquisite irony that collectors who would never dream of having a real construction worker in their living room will pay up to $35,000 to display the fiber-glass replica of one by Hanson: these effigies have the same relationship to social reality as a stuffed rhino does to the veld...
Anyway, by Tuesday I had shaken hands with the Bio rhino, and by Wednesday I had seen the parking lot adjacent to Vanserg. If I never see it again it will be too soon...
Past Harvard Pizza, across Mass Ave, by the Fogg. Divinity Avenue in a sprint, a good morning kiss for the rhino, through the Vanserg parking lot in a blaze...