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...Jagger, fire eater ("I will amaze you by rubbing the burning torch over various parts of my body and anatomy"), a tattoo artist and human pincushion. The sword swallower put away a 10-in. blade ("I'll ram it down my bread basket and tickle my belly button"). The geek (lowest operator on the lot, a man who pretends to eat live animals) tore the head off a live chicken and ripped at the flesh with his teeth...
...middle-aged hero (Robert Shafer) is that most pitiable of men, a Washington Senators fan. An offhand mention that he would sell his soul for a long-ball hitter brings on Ray Walston, a crewcut, button-down Screwtape always willing to oblige. With a flick of the wrist, Walston turns paunchy Rooter Shafer into spring-legged, muscular Tab Hunter. Despite the fact that Actor Hunter holds a bat as if it were a canoe paddle, he hits .524 and steals 976 bases as the Senators roar in pursuit of the Yankees...
...navigation, and for the Matador, Sparrow and other missiles. Link trainers are now being used to go through dry runs on test firings of space shots. Says Link: "Some of our missile failures were traced to human errors. In the boredom of a countdown, somebody forgot to push a button...
...better moods he tours bookshops, or inspects unframed reproductions. (In his room in Adams House Harold has mounted a picture of Dover Beach--clipped from an insurance ad--on the laundry cardboard from his button-down shirts.) Occasionally he wanders to the river, looking for dandelions--the univer- sal symbol of simple innocence and purity. More often he stands before the plate-glass display or Cardullo's--with a libidinous twitch at the Italian sausage...
...greatest ballet hits in history. After that Jerry almost always had a hit. His serious ballets (Age of Anxiety, The Cage, Afternoon of a Faun) are untarnished by time, and his dance interludes for musical shows-notably the monumental madness of the Mack Sennett sequence in High Button Shoes-revitalized Broadway ballet...