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...fete's official theme is "The World of Rivers: Fresh Water as a Source of Life," and the planners have taken ingenious advantage of the aqueous motif. The main entrance to the 84-acre site is dominated by a sculpture of the sea god Neptune grappling with a tail-flailing native alligator. Flamboyantly presiding over the faux-granite gates are a titanic pair of bare-breasted mermaids, who have stirred a surprising flap in a city sated with live mammary display, and a gigantoid pelican, the state bird (no flap...
...Fiberglas-mesh structure looks more as if it had been dreamed up in a Bourbon Street bar by the design team of Dali and Disney. Grecian urns and Roman busts sit among the rooftops; gilded cherubs toot their horns; alligators double as seats; a peacock spreads a vibrant tail. The wall's up and down hurly-burly has performing areas, water sculptures, flowers and 41 fountains...
...York Times newsroom is a symphony orchestra, while the Post's is a jazz band. That blaring, brassy, improvisational quality is most evident in the Style section, a much imitated feature that may lead with a book review one day, take a gossipy look at Embassy Row cock tail bashes the next, then weigh in with an exhaustive account of an unknown couple throwing a party to celebrate their divorce. The section, although sometimes self-indulgent and verbose, attracts much of the best prose in the Post, especially from Columnist Henry Mitchell, Feature Writer Myra MacPherson, Book Critic Jonathan...
...Rachel Miller and stroke Rosemary Pugh Radcliffe used a strong tail wind to turn in a very quick 4 54 44 Princeton strolled in at 5 02 47, while Cornell finished a distant third...
...homecoming-with the stuff of legend-myth-haunted Gaelic songs, the discovery of a 1,000-year-old man buried in peat. For Heaney, objects always cast a long shadow: the observation of a skunk, of all animals, brings on a longing for his absent wife: "Your head-down, tail-up hunt in a bottom drawer/ For the black plunge-line nightdress...