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Said: "We had lots of servants in baggy silk trousers-one was an ex-eunuch." In the simple, gruffly tender relationship between the stray orphan and the fugitive bounder, Boy combines the charm of Huck Finn with the ruggedness of a Hemingway safari...
Today Bernardin scouts all Europe for talent, preferring Poles above all others, and he rechristens each one in his own high style. His present girls include Neferzouzou, Bertha von Paraboum, Bettina Uranium, Nadia Safari, Victoria Nankin, Natasha von Turmanov, Coral Lazuli and Sofia Palladium. Among the alumnae are Lili Lapudeur, Rapha Temporel and Bernardin's alltime favorite, a Polish-German named Dodo d'Hambourg...
...Bernardin has choreographed their acts, there is not much actual stripping at Le Crazy (as Parisians call it), since most of the girls appear already bare. Nadia Safari, for example, wears a widely spaced net sarong and lies in a hammock under streaked gold and black lighting that is supposed to suggest the primordial jungle. Crazy Horse girls are, in the main, above bumping and grinding. Lighting is everything, and Bernardin refers to his dozens of tiny spotlights collectively as "my brush...
...Royal Weekend." All details of the satellite safari are, of course, handled by state-run tourist agencies. The payoff comes from "shooting fees"-each type of game bird or animal is assigned a price tag, which varies according to size, age and trophy value. At the end of a shoot, the tourist bureau tots up the value of game shot, and the hunter forks over. In the Koprivnica area of Yugoslavia last spring, a Düsseldorf status seeker shelled out $12,500 for a 660-lb. European brown bear. That was just a warmup; Koprivnica gamekeepers are carefully pampering...
...impulse buyers, who now owe a fancy $656 million. The cards can now be used like cash at most airports, hotels, restaurants and shops, and credit-card companies are scrambling to arrange more uses. The 1,250,000 holders of Diners' Club cards can charge an African safari, and credit cards are now used to get haircuts, buy theater tickets and rent mink coats. The Carte Blanche card can be flashed as an instant credit reference at 1,300 U.S. hospitals: just wave your card at the ambulance attendant...