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...Actor Rod Steiger, 55, going from the Hasidic rabbi in The Chosen to Benito Mussolini in Lion of the Desert demanded a few changes. First, the Yiddish inflection was traded for an Italian accent. No problem there, since Steiger had played Pope John XXIII in And There Came a Man (1968) and, for that matter, the title role in Mussolini, the Last Act (1974). Next, the full, rabbinical beard had to go. Finally, Steiger's impressively shaggy head had to be shaved. But how closely? Over this hairy point, a heated argument arose between Steiger's makeup...
From there, the Crimson faced an uphill battle. Andy McNerney notched a major decision at 134 and Rick Kief and Mark Colley added three team points apiece at 126 and 190, but it wasn't enough to offset Lion pins...
...more than any porcupine that can't play God Bless America on the musical goose-horns is worth. He sells an ostrich egg for $17, a slink of ferrets for $21 apiece, two ducks for $4 each, and a pregnant monkey named Bonnie for $575. A female African lion cub, not more than 6 in. high, 30 in. long including tail, and only a few weeks old, goes for $450. "Dime a dozen," says a professional cat man. "Everybody's got too many lions...
...unresolved. Most of these boiled down to one word: money. A major sticking point concerned the return of $8 billion to $14 billion in frozen Iranian assets, much of which was encumbered by American claims and attachments. Another problem appeared to be the Iranians' insistence on a multibil-lion-dollar escrow account to guarantee the return of the late Shah's U.S.-held assets. Said an aide to Secretary of State Edmund Muskie: "That's really where it's hung. They are serious about it. But they have to understand that we are at the limit...
Talking easily, Reagan moved around the house, stopping once to point out a painting by Clare Boothe Luce of a smiling lion. He took it off the wall to show her inscription on the back, turned over the painting and was astonished to find a live bat, mouse-size and squirmy, clutching the frame. Reagan poked at it with his finger. He recalled another bat that had made its way into the house a couple of years earlier. With Nancy howling in the background, he and Barney had chased that one with a broom and got it out alive. This...