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...blanket-littered hallways. "An outrage," seconded Majority Leader Robert Byrd. Over the ayes, nays and occasional snores of his bleary-eyed colleagues, Senator Robert Dole told of encountering a woman who had come to observe the all-night session. It was the best show in town, she explained: "The zoo was closed...
...told of the elderly woman who picked out a chicken at a meat market, peered under its wings, poked its breast and tested its thighs, then rejected it. Complained the butcher: "Lady, I don't think you could pass a test like that." Lance also told of a zoo visitor who was pleased at seeing a lamb and a lion sharing a pen and praised the zookeeper for fulfilling the biblical prophecy that natural enemies would one day live peacefully side by side. "But sir," replied the attendant, "we put in a new lamb every...
Firefall tonight at the Orpheum; Punkpin decorating contest at the Franklin Park Zoo tomorrow night; Chicago, unlike Bertha, is coming around here anymore on November 8; semi-colon; Charlie Daniels at the Orf on the Fifth; Joan Armatrading (tremendous voice), The Ramones (cute mugs, Rockwell likes 'em) and The Talking Heads (former Modern Lovers included, for those who remember, those who care) are all up-and-coming; Firefall cancelled [drat]; Styx the 4th at the Orf; at the Paradise: Southside Johnny like right now or something, Chris Hillman, Sea Level and Mink De Ville coming up, not to mention Charles...
...fountain renaissance is Lawrence Halprin, 61, a freewheeling iconoclast who has opinions on the shape of cities, freeways (he thinks they should be sculptures in the cityscape) and water. In the city, he says, "water affects us in the same way as does a wild animal in a zoo, pacing back and forth in his cage, beautiful and quietly desperate, controlled but with implications of wild danger." Halprin's latest work is a cascade for Seattle's Freeway Park. Like Alph, Kubla Khan's sacred river, the Seattle cascade plunges through a chasm, this one measurable...
Outside West Berlin's Zoo-Palast Cinema, near the bombed-out shell of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, as well as at scores of theaters in the rest of West Germany, long lines of Germans have been lining up to see a new hit. The central figure-his black hair combed flat across his forehead, his impassioned voice exhorting his followers to build a thousand-year Reich-is der Führer himself. The 2½-hour documentary movie about him, Hitler-A Career, is the smash of the summer, drawing thousands to the box offices and spurring...