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...Reinhold. I'm sure your answer would be Moses because he led his people to the Promised Land and that's just where you're going to take us, isn't it? But you can't take us to the Promised Land if you have to make a trillion zillion promises to a bunch of nosey senators along the way, now can you? Judge, you don't have to bother answering me until the end. I'm just going to ask you a series of asinine questions in an annoying, high-pitched whine...
...third, a symmetrical ten years after that. But I bring with me this time a condition I did not have before. I have age. I am a grumpie, a gray, upwardly mobile professional (although, silly me, during the last absence from the city I forgot to make a zillion dollars, the requisite for settling in today). Less amused, and no doubt less amusing, I no longer suffer everyday brutalities in stride; hence the need for the incantation. Of course, to be fair, any period of adjustment is rough on the nerves. It gets all the more complicated when you find...
...often, and he is captured by Ambrose the hungry cat. Although the rabbit avoids becoming a dinner by remaining a nail, he is trapped in that role when the angry feline hammers him into the side of a house. The nail whiles away the time by counting to a zillion, until the cat accidentally sets the house on fire, allowing Solomon to change into the first of the red-hot bunnies. Somehow, the author-artist never strains credulity and seldom fails to make the risible visible. Like the best cartoonists, Steig has always known exactly where to draw the line...
...Opera Company of Boston to postpone its season, friends feared that Conductor Sarah Caldwell had reached the tragic finale of a distinguished career. Instead, Caldwell, 61, emerged from the illness this month determined to change her tune and be fitter than a bass fiddle. Her goal: "To lose a zillion pounds and become the thinnest lady conductor--at least in Boston." She has already dropped 70 lbs. (from a reported 250) on a prescribed regimen that includes a 600-calorie-a-day diet and plenty of walking, treadmill exercise and tennis. Has it been tough? Not after doctors told...
There were also the inevitable social contretemps. Publisher Walter Annenberg, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, asked seven Americans, including Gerald and Betty Ford, to lunch with the royals at Sunnylands, his zillion-dollar spread near Palm Springs. "For every two friends you invite," Annenberg said, "you make 50 enemies." Hundreds of Southern California somebodies were upset about not being invited to Sunday night's 500-person bash on a Los Angeles movie sound stage. Nancy Reagan was hostess, and the President's pal Frank Sinatra rounded up the entertainment (Ed McMahon, Perry...