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...Oeynhausen, West Germany, where town officials have issued an ultimatum: no barking from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. or from 1 to 3 p.m., the hours when guests of this spa community are presumed to be drying out in bed. What a dog does (chewing up a carpet slipper can be therapeutic, a muzzle is inhibiting) is his own business, so long as he keeps quiet about it and stays off the street. Fines start...
Sexual Fantasy. Bugaku opens on an empty stage suggestive of a court or an arena. The music begins with atonal violin glissandos so delicately feline that the sight of the first dancer coming on stage is a silent shock-like a slipper thrown at a cat. Five girls dance alone in a ritualistic largo, then five men replace them, moving with the elaborate logic of karate fighters. Each gesture is answered with architectural symmetry, each movement implies a countermovement...
...children's wooden Dutch shoes, there a few color slides of castles in Germany, some gay apparel, a brochure about Strat-'ford-on-Avon, a movie camera, a green Michelin guide to Paris, a little girl's dress, picture postcards from Florence, a half-burned evening slipper. "I knew nearly every one of them," said the mayor of Atlanta. "I went to school with some of them. I was in business with others. I was in love with some of the ladies when they were girls...
...Slipper's Heel. At first, the ship's souls seem a normally various lot-some promising; some, like the Prussified captain, obvious pigs; others, like Herr Graf, a sick, querulous religious fanatic so far beyond the usual range of the mind's eye that at first look they seem irrelevant...
...Cost of Hunting. No committee member was a more indefatigable antique hunter than Jackie herself. In storage, and in antique shops in Baltimore. New York and London, she uncovered such prizes as a Bellange pier table ordered by President Monroe and a Victorian slipper armchair of the Lincoln period. Steadfastly claiming that "the question of money should be subordinated to esthetic values," Jackie and the committee refused to reveal prices. But some of the pieces cost as much as $13,000. What Jackie was discovering was a fact happily known to every antique dealer in the U.S.-Early Americana comes...