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King Crimson. Friday, May 4th at the Orpheum Theater. Tickets are $4-6. With Black Oak Arkansas, and Spooky Tooth. Paul Simon is at the Music Hall, on Sunday. By himself...
...gamey Radcliffe tennis squad bouncing back into Ivy league competition today in what promises to be a tooth-and-nail match against Yale...
...TOOTH MERCHANT...
...Tooth Merchant, Sulzberger's knowledge is very much in evidence, but so is a distinct sense of humor. He presents a slippery, multilingual Armenian named Kevork Sasounian, who discovers the original dragon's teeth (sacksful of them), which have been lying in a cave in Asia Minor since Cadmus' and Jason's time. What to do? Why, sell them as potential shock troops to the highest bidder in the cold war world of the 1950s...
...Sulzberger $4,000 to try to smuggle his mistress from Istanbul to Paris), and sowing the story with enough hard words to keep most readers within busy reach of a good dictionary. (Samples: congener, metopic, eristic, flocculent, saporous.) Sulzberger's congeners will be pleased to find that The Tooth Merchant, though occasionally eristic, never stoops to flocculence...