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...long time ago, students of power concocted a formula that has yet to be disproved: "An army of stags led by a lion would be better than an army of lions led by a stag...
...crusade against angling was launched this winter by the Hunt Saboteurs' Association, a militant wing of the animal-rights movement. The H.S.A. is an intense, zealous group of moral commandos who have been disrupting fox and stag hunts since 1963. (Their campaign has been categorized by one neo-Wildean observer as "the implacable in search of the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.") In the latest issue of the association's magazine, H.S.A. Committee Member Ralph Cook described Britain's 3,380,000 recreational fishermen as villains who lure "unsuspecting sentient creatures onto sharp-barbed hooks...
...paid any attention to the dapper, mustachioed gentleman who joined the members of the men-only Friars Club in Manhattan last week at a stag roast for Sid Caesar. By week's end, however, the officers of the 79-year-old male bastion were trying to forget Phillip Downey, better known as Phyllis Oilier, 65. The idea to crash the party came from the loudmouthed comedian's boyfriend, Howard Rose, an architect and dues-paying Friar, and she began working on her disguise a month ago. "I thought they would have a sense of humor about it," says...
...part of any formal talks. "Women are simply not accepted as business equals in Japan," notes a negotiator for a major U.S. electronics firm. Japanese women are all but barred from the management of big companies, and the important after-hours business socializing in Japan is exclusively stag. Another admonition is not to send someone under 35 to conduct negotiations. Says an American official with a high-tech firm: "You are insulting the Japanese by sending a young man to deal with a senior executive, who is likely...
...home strand of buckeye humor, folk forms that verge unconsciously on surrealism: tall Texan stories and Bible Belt grotesqueries. A zoo of critters lurks in Alexander's paintings: snakes preying on rats, rats eyeing scrofulous cats, and so on up the food chain to leopards and a large stag, whose rack of antlers has a horrified, spiky erectness. We are shown a teeming, hostile world where everything studies the next species with blood or hunger in its eye; these acts of watching are traced out with lines, zapping like lasers-or the emblems of stigmatization in Sassetta...