for Bird, the performance that left the greatest impression came from a “forlorn, undernourished little comedian” who “looks like you want to give him a blood transfusion”: Woody Allen.14 The premise of Allen’s five-minute bit “The Moose,” delivered to a National Guard Armory stuffed with the country’s top political, financial, and media brass, implied that the only way a Jew could gain entrance to gentile culture was by dressing up as a moose, getting shot, and then being mounted as a trophy on the wall of a private club. For the First Lady, who knew something about outsiders breaking into
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