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...Year's eve party, and at which Nick and Debby were scheduled to perform a "crab mating dance" for the throngs. They somehow failed their scheduled performance and ended up wrapped up in the same blanket in the back room, both passed out over a bottle of mad duck champagne. Maybe some year, I keep hoping...
...with the modest range of tone color afforded by conventional instruments, P.D.Q. experimented widely with unusual sound. Few of his innovations made it into the mainstream of Western music, and few who heard the Serenoodle last weekend--with members of the Band's expanded percussion section playing police whistle, duck call popgun cowbell and highly anachronistic electric car horn--will wonder...
After the Democratic landslide last fall, it looked as if a lot of lame-duck Republicans were going to have to leave Washington-a fate dreaded by politicians who have grown accustomed to the power and perquisites available in the nation's capital. But the anxieties of many of them have been allayed; they are going to stay put, thanks to the benevolence of President Ford who once served in Congress with them. He has already appointed a dozen G.O.P. election losers to Government at salaries not too far below their congressional pay of $42,500 a year...
...corner of the room. "No don't laugh. Listen to the musicians. I don't like what they're playing, either, but, you know, they really know what they're doing. I turned and there sat this guy with a violin case resting across his knees. An odd duck. I thought. What does he do on that fiddle anyway...
...summarized in a bout between a heavyweight champion and Lord Clark of Civilization for the Slade Professorship of Fine Arts at Oxford (Lord Clark loses in the first round). The defeat of Alistair Cooke, the boring commentator on Masterpice Theatre, is even more ignominious--he is overpowered by a duck while reminiscing of Philadelphia...