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...musical revues they perform have paper-thin plots that are traditional in the beginning, but undergo metamorphoses as the show wears on. Even such a popular set piece as the famed Kabuki Lion Dance gets a startling new tail twist: it starts off traditionally with a dancer in a furry, tasseled leonine head, but in the end scores of Takarazuka girls, dressed as butterflies in tight leotards and wings, abandon their fluttering and go into a high-kicking routine to rival the Rockettes...
Like most self-educated men, Disney pulled himself up from nowhere by grabbing the tail of a runaway idea and hanging on for dear life. Even now, in middle life (he is 54) he seems to most acquaintances a "cheerful monomaniac." He works at least 14 hours a day, never takes a vacation ("I get enough vacation from having a change of troubles")-though he does have a hobby, a miniature train named Lilly Belle (after his wife), and a half-mile of track to run it on. Lacking a formal education-he quit school in the ninth grade-Walt...
...Walt prospered, The Mouse got some of the benefits. In 1931 he was given his first pair of shoes. By 1935 he was fatter and sleeker, and his eyes had grown large and almost soulful. In 1938 he felt the pinch of rising costs: he lost his tail, thereby saving the studio a sizable sum of money on each cartoon. Next year, after Snow White, he got the tail back, only to lose it again during Walt's dark years in the '40s. But in 1952 Walt made up for everything by giving Mickey eyebrows...
...addition, Fish heard from his future customers. Portland Gas & Coke Co. President Charles Gueffroy flatly refused to sign a contract for San Juan gas until he knew the price. Complained Gueffroy: "We are on the expensive tail end of the pipeline...
...shrill note of opposition came when the Transport Workers' volatile Mike Quill, still burned up at the way the New York Democratic Party had blocked his candidate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., from the gubernatorial nomination, rose on the floor and claimed that the C.I.O. was a tail to the Democratic kite. He be moaned the fact that "we are tying ourselves tighter and tighter to the Democratic Party ... All across the country we find the blundering of the Democratic Party weighing us down." Quill called for "a third party, a political party, a labor party, a trade-union party...