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...steel lattice is a joy toy for kids, and a spatial bore. But then, who considers a playground worthy of a sculptor's talents? At least, New York city's housing authority did, and let Costantino Nivola, 53, see how he could improve on the blight of monkey bars, slides, and swings that make play grounds across the nation look like a titanic display of naked plumbing...
Party Stopper. "When I first got in this business ten years ago," says Pet Shop Owner Gene Herman of Evergreen, Ore., "if you sold a monkey a month and a talking myna bird once in a while, it was way out. Now you've got to be able to provide everything from a python to a piranha on a day's notice." Squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, woolly monkeys and others have become so popular that they are hardly classified as exotic any more. Among other species in demand are such far-out fauna as anteaters (they prefer bananas...
They mingled and they ate and they drank. When things loosened up, the crowd made room for indefatigable Luci Baines, who, with her father looking proudly on, gyrated through a vigorous Watusi, an arduous Frug, to such notable compositions as Monkey Climb and Walk Right...
...chorus girls have worn them for centuries), but only in the past year have they become more than an occasional lark for a far-out coed or a conversation piece for a starlet in need. Now, to the yé yé sounds of the Frug and the Monkey and the fashions that dance along (high high boots, short short skirts and cut-out shoes), manufacturers are moving fast to get them on the counters again...
...these bald philosophic propositions are the weakest part of a suspenseful and moving script. Of course it's redundant for the man to say "It's useless," or "Even a monkey could be trained to do this" when he's digging in a hole as dismal as that one; but after sand, struggle and serendipity, when life gets reduced to ciggs, sake, and sex, the sensations are powerfully communicated to the audience: you taste that drag, you smell that swig, you ... like the feelies in Brave New World...