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...when he is out there on the stage, being cheered as a global lion-tamer, he cannot resist the temptation to join in the applause. Once at a large Washington dinner a man walked up to him and said, "Dr. Kissinger, I want to thank you for saving the world." "You 're welcome," he replied...
...free person and found that I had been sincere with myself." With ex-Housewife Pat Loud she discussed the lack of neighborliness in New York. The most stirring interview was when Martha came face to face with a tiger named Prince, who was under the eye of Animal Tamer Gunther Gebel-Williams Then she had a revelation of her own: "I talked my husband into becoming a Republican [in 1966]. He'd always been a Democrat. And the day I talked him out of calling the President Tricky Dick' -I could still shoot myself...
...best and most genuine pieces in the show are the small drawings, perhaps because they don't try to serve any purpose beyond pleasing the eye. The taut elegance of Sadiqi Bek's Lion Tamer and the grace of Riza's A Young Man in a Blue Cloak prove that these two were artists of the first rank. And the drawings of Mu'in Musavvir, Riza's most gifted student, are delightful. His Squatting Camel is not to be missed...
...Bellerophoniad," the domesticated archetype is Bellerophon, tamer of the winged horse, killer of the fire-breathing Chimera, conqueror of the Amazons and generally a favorite of the gods. Barth renders Bellerophon's adventures into a dizzying situation comedy in which metaphors are homogenized and characters recede into their own stories and reappear so that the middle of one man's tale could be another's beginning or ending. Both "Perseid" and "Bellerophoniad" spin on little else than the axis of Barth's cleverness, and both wobble badly...
...with 2-in. heels that look exactly like the Mary Janes worn by Shirley Temple and generations of other little girls. One elderly Arrowsmith customer plunked down $65 for knee-high fire-engine-red boots with floppy tops and 2-in. heels. He turned out to be a lion tamer...