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...year-old, Roger Dean Adams had drunk quite a lot that day-a dozen beers and some wine, his buddies said. After dark, Adams and two companions sneaked into the Portland, Ore., zoo. He lowered himself into the grizzly bear's grotto, but the bear ignored him. He climbed out and tried the pit occupied by two lions, Caesar and Sis. Sis lunged at Adams, catching him by the feet. He died of a punctured jugular vein...
...Council of Industrial Design. It was Snowdon who, in a speech to the nation's souvenir manufacturers, condemned most of their output as "low British rubbish." A trained architect (though he flunked his Cambridge exams) and a wizard handyman, Snowdon designed the impressive new aviary at the London Zoo and an improved motorized wheelchair. In sum, he calculates that he spends 80% of his life being Antony Armstrong-Jones and 20% being Lord Snowdon...
...likes to call them his "pithies and pungents," the zinging denunciations of Administration critics that have made him headlines off and on since he assailed "an effete corps of impudent snobs" in a New Orleans speech last October. He has since blasted away at "the whole damn zoo" of young radicals, scoffed at "tomentose exhibitionists who provoke more derision than fear," damned "the didactic inadequacies of the garrulous" and proclaimed that "abetting the merchants of hate are the parasites of passion." Vice President Spiro Agnew concedes that there are hazards in using "intemperate language," but he insists...
Upstairs was a zoo. Bob Ash was sitting in the john puking his guts out. It seems that one of the girls had stood him up for what would have been his first real "date" since coming to the Cliffe. Three girls and two guys were in his room finishing off the remains of a quart of Cutty Sark in between halves of a hallway hockey game...
...objectivity as well. The story of an Atlantic crossing between Vera Cruz and Bremerhaven in the 1930s, it is a parable of the growth of Nazism and a chilling view of human nature. The wayward characters are so often compared to animals that they seem to comprise a floating zoo. Miss Porter has often said, "I am a passenger on that ship," and it is understandable that when the book's heroine finally leaves the ship by launch, she turns her back to it and never once looks over her shoulder...