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...certain activities off the record. On Air Force One, an eleven-member press pool sits in the back, well behind President Reagan's closed-off cabin, and gets regular briefings from Spokesman Larry Speakes, which the pool shares with the rest of the press traveling on a separate "zoo plane." There is an unwritten agreement that Reagan is not photographed at unguarded moments, although a picture of him wearing sweat pants and standing in a doorway was transmitted by U.P.I, this week, despite White House requests that it be withheld. Vice President George Bush avoids the situation entirely...
Stage-managing the zoo-parade is a strung-out addict named Dopey (Gary Sinise), who looks and acts like a guerrilla refugee from the Twilight Zone. Sinise is one of the founders of Steppenwolf, an admirable community of switch-hitting theater folk in business for a decade and lately receiving wider acclaim for their Manhattan transfers of Sam Shepard's True West and C.P. Taylor's And a Nightingale Sang ... The director of Balm in Gilead is John Malkovich, who now seems on the springboard to stardom with his roles in Broadway's Death of a Salesman...
...cheap carnival girl whose "act" requires her to spend all day being licked by a bat; another implicitly compares the hero's lickerish mother to a pleasure-loving lizard; a third likens the members of a platoon to an anteater, a peafowl, a civet cat and other zoo dwellers. To make so beastly a world bearable, an author should ensure that disgust is in his characters' minds and not in his own. At this Boyd does not invariably succeed. In the title story, for example, a G.I. in Saigon undresses a shy local whore only to find that...
...plot are linked by the common element of fear. Whites are made edgy by the unidentified invader in ways that they cannot or will not understand: "All the residents of the suburbs wanted was for the animal to be confined in its appropriate place, that's all, zoo or even circus. They were prepared to pay for this to be done." Gordimer rarely allows herself passages of such clear and cutting satire. Whites in South Africa have already paid, to keep the majority of blacks in an "appropriate" place, a price yet to be reckoned...
...date: seven Top Ten singles off the album, of which two became No. 1), that made the brothers into a superstar attraction and moved promoters to promise astronomical advances to book the tour. If Michael had decided to stay home and play with the animals in his private zoo, it is doubtful that his brothers could have pulled down an advance of almost $41 million for a tour or driven such tough bargains on profit participation in everything from T-shirt sales to stadium parking fees. Or got so much rotten publicity, either...