Word: rumped
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...Questions of Travel there are only 20 poems, but six of them are egregiously good. One is a 30-page prose poem that contains this spectacular child's-eye view of a horse being shod: "He is enormous. His rump is a brown, glossy world. His ears are secret entrances to the underworld. One of his legs is doubled up behind him in an improbable affectedly polite way. Clear bright-green bits of stiffened froth, like glass, are stuck around his mouth . . and the cloud of his odor is a chariot in itself...
...over with in as short a time and with as little risk to himself as possible. He did not improve things when he kicked the bull in the snout, and he looked simply grotesque when he charged his second bull with head lowered and butted it in its rump." Yawned Manuel Benitez, better known as El Cordobes: "Even a great bullfighter can get tired...
What few main-line Republicans suspected when they went along with Goldwater was that the 1964 disaster would end by encouraging the conservative rump instead of shaming it back into the fold. The Democrats, by contrast, have weathered countless crises of North South schizophrenia and myriad lesser spats and have repeatedly proved themselves capable of closing ranks before the voters go to the polls...
...pros as Major, the 500-lb. lion, were acting up. When Major refused to roar on cue, his trainer jabbed him in the nose with a long pole. No luck. Director Robert Day then ordered a native crewman to sneak up from behind and prod Major's rump. The Brazilian blanched and declined-until he was given an on-the-spot salary hike. Later on, Major shifted from depressive to manic, escaped during a Rio zoo take, sent visitors scrambling for their lives as he rambled free...
...very motto-"What Do I Know?"-appeals to these inquiring times. His convictions have a contemporary ring. "How many condemna tions have I seen," he wrote, "more criminal than the crime!" He could ridicule pomp ("On the loftiest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our own rump"), pedants ("Won't they try to square the circle while perched on their wives?") and bigotry ("If she is a whore, must she also necessarily have bad breath?"). He had a psychiatrist's understanding of the mind: "Alas, poor man! You are miserable enough by nature without being...