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Even by aristocratic standards, Jean de Berry's appetite for possessions was extreme. He liked animals; so his menagerie included 50 swans, a wolf, a camel, an ostrich, 1,500 mastiffs, and a number of tame bears which, lurching along in specially designed carts, followed the duke on his frequent moves between chàteaux. As with beasts, so with priests: "He maintained in his home," wrote one chronicler, "many chaplains who day and night sang the praises of God and celebrated Mass, and he took care to compliment them whenever the service lasted longer or was more elaborate...
...rats-Peanuts, Pepper and Paprika. When she travels to wherever the racing season takes her, Robyn carries the rats in a handbag; at her home on Long Island, N.Y., she keeps them in a terrarium. "They're nice to go home to," she says. "They're very tame and come when called...
...grimly labored as No. 1 of "twelve typical stages in the pair-formation process of a young male and female." Defying his own boredom, Morris compiles the obvious, the faintly surprising, the wildly pretentious and the erroneous: "Anyone who has enjoyed the exotic luxuries of body intimacies with a tame cheetah, lion or tiger will know that . . . they are patted, not stroked...
Like too many American comic novelists, Maloney seems to lack self-respect. The Nixon Recession Caper is a reasonably funny - and unreasonably tame - piece of what gets called high jinks. May it prove successful enough to give Maloney the confidence to write the wild and offensive novel he is capable...
...irony is that Eros and the other Ginzburg offerings of nine years ago now appear tame. Today they would be unlikely to attract either the law's wrath or the public's attention...