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Whale Talk. Eventually, the most promising trainees graduate to the "Beverly Hills" suite of cages, home of such four-legged thespians as Judy the chimp, who can understand 76 verbal commands; Clarence the cross-eyed lion; Bruce the ocelot, who was a regular on TV's Honey West; Zamba II the lion, who appears on the Dreyfus Fund commercials; and Modac the elephant, a 53-year-old veteran of the Ringling Bros. Circus. Tors's Method menagerie accounts for 90% of all the animal scenes filmed in Hollywood; the going rate for a jungle headliner, who travels with...
...Negro potential) is always the same: frantic charges of 'reverse racism,' black supremacy,' and 'black paranoia.'... A sixteenth century English writer (Gerrard Winstanley) once said, 'Everyone talks of freedom, but there are few that act for freedom, and the actors for freedom are oppressed by the talkers and verbal professors of freedom.' However I am confident that the university and campus will come to realize what a meritorious group the AAAAS is, provided they stop looking at us with a jaundiced eye, and stopped turning everything we do or say from side to side in order to find the monster...
...Negro potential) is always the same: frantic charges of 'reverse racism,' 'black supremacy,' and 'black paranoia. . . . A sixteenth century English writer (Gerrard Winstanley) once said, 'Everyone talks of freedom, but there are few that act for freedom, and the actors for freedom are oppressed by the talkers and verbal professors of freedom.' However I am confindent that the university and campus will come to realize what a meritorious group the AAAAS is, provided they stop looking at us with a jaundiced eye, and stopped turning everything we do or say from side to side in order to find the monster...
Donald Barthelme's work creates the impression that something miraculous happened to him overnight-as if, blind from birth, he could suddenly see, or, fluent only in Urdu, he abruptly grasped English entire. The result is quite an explosion, a staccato burst of verbal star shells, pinwheel phrases, cherry bombs of Joycean puns and wordplays. Such a book is Snow White, an amusingly refurbished fairy-tale novel of the absurd-as episodic and pointless as a slow-turning kaleidoscope, yet just as strangely affecting...
...under all of that basaltic opacity and frentic word-accumulation something, presumably, is being expressed. The obscurity of the diction (an alembic is anything which distills or refines) and the ambiguity of the description reduce the poem to a mere order of words unified by consonant repetition and inarticulate verbal echoes...