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...spent Saturn's Days gawking at chariot races or lion-Christian munch-ins; of the 18th century Londoners who visited Vauxhall Gardens to goggle at fireworks and take in country music; and of the Parisians who in 1817 rode the original shoot-the-chute (it was called saut du Niagara) or gasped at balloon ascents at Ruggieri's fêtes champêtres. Some parkgoers today recall grandparents' tales of the great 1893 Chicago Exposition, which introduced the Ferris wheel; their parents may have courted at Coney Island...
...mouth, Eliot Feld was working and reworking the choreography of his 1972 ballet of Stravinsky's A Soldier's Tale. Two dancers stood by. Finally, Feld snapped off the TV and nodded to the pianist. Spinning out a series of steps, he recited, "Passé, chassé, saut de basque, heel, toe." On the next run-through, he renamed the steps: "Strength, will, talent, musicality, perseverance, time...
...couple of Fridays ago Pierre Salinger, John Kennedy's press secretary, penned a note between bites of his shrimps sautés nantua and sent it over to Pat Buchanan, President Nixon's speechwriter, who was deep into an omelette au parmesan. Salinger congratulated Buchanan for his performance before the Watergate committee. On his way out of the restaurant, Buchanan stopped for a cheery chat with Salinger and his companions, Columnist Art Buchwald and Frank Mankiewicz, George McGovern's sometime campaign aide...
...nation unto itself, but it holds a strange hope, a sense of excitement-and some terror-for Americans. As most of them see it, the good, godless, gregarious pursuit of pleasure is what California is all about. The citizens of lotusland seem forever to be lolling around swimming pools, sautéing in the sun, packing across the Sierra, frolicking nude on the beaches, getting taller each year, plucking money off the trees, romping around topless, tramping through the redwoods and-when they stop to catch their breath-preening themselves on-camera before the rest of an envious world...
...vast swath of the nation's most fertile farm land, crops and cattle sautéed under the searing sun; an Agriculture Department spokesman warned that farmers were "right on the brink of disaster." A swarm of rattlesnakes invaded little Harrison, Neb., looking for water; southwest of Chicago, heat-crazed frogs swarmed by the thousands across parched fields...