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...lyrics is reminiscent of My Fair Lady, but Leslie Bricusse's songs are not. As a composer, Bricusse (Roar of the Greasepaint, Stop the World) seems to have kept a wary eye on the charts, inserting flaccid pop songs whenever the action flags. In such a child-centered zoo story, the animals, of course, should be the true stars of the picture. But Director Richard Fleischer has inserted a number of special-effect monstrosities whose obvious falsity helps to destroy the mood created by the real zoo denizens. The Sea Snail is laughably mechanical, and the luna moth, which...
...After a visit to Sacramento last spring, Leka wrote from Paris that he would be sending "a small token of appreciation," namely a 15-month-old, 700-lb. elephant. The beast's name: Gertie, which Nancy Reagan thought lacked a certain chic, and is why the Sacramento zoo came to acquire an elephant named...
...Zoo. Kozol's main charge is that a powerful anti-Negro prejudice permeates the entire Boston school system. When he first arrived in the system, Kozol contends, a fellow teacher pointed wearily at children in the playground and said: "Those are the animals, and this is the zoo...
Healey has remained noncommittal. "No decision has yet been made on the use ^L Aldabra for defense purposes," he said. But the scientists were obvious ly unwilling to settle for bureaucratic vagueness. One biologist dryly noted that, of course, the giant land tortoise could always survive in the London Zoo. "The Union Jack flying over Aldabra is evidence of our custodianship of a biological treasure house," the magazine New Scientist reminded Healey. "It is not a license to kill...
...keep abreast of new talent, Sullivan is out most nights until 4 a.m. prowling theaters and nightclubs; in the summer, he spends six weeks abroad rounding up Swiss bell ringers, Japanese jugglers and enough animals to stock the Bronx Zoo, including such rare species as a water-skiing elephant and a piano-playing dog. For many years, his scout on the Chicago vaudeville circuit was the late Poet Carl Sand burg. "He got us the Australian woodchopper act," says Sullivan proudly, "and the fellow who stitches his fingers together with a needle and thread...