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...outright curse, lifting their vision just enough to comprehend genius but nowhere near enough to emulate it. Well into their middle years they remain obsessed with the glories of university days, when the ethereal world of ideas opened to them, and regard everything that has come afterward as a sordid compromise...
...soldier named Jean-Bedel Bokassa declared himself Emperor of the Central African Empire and spent $22 million on his coronation. Two years later he reportedly approved the massacre of some 100 children who had failed to buy correct school uniforms. Soon afterward, Bokassa was ousted in a coup backed by France, where he later settled. Back home he was tried in absentia and sentenced to death...
...Theater in St. Louis, Berry, in a rhinestone, mustard- colored shirt, slinked along, scissored his knees and thumped on his guitar until 2:30 a.m. Working hard to keep up with him were such progeny as Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, Linda Ronstadt and Julian Lennon. At a party afterward, Berry was presented with an oversize guitar-shaped birthday cake and asked how the evening had gone. "I don't ever form an opinion on my own performance," he said. "There's nothing for me to say because...
...then relatives when Perelman married West's sister Laura. It was not, Herrmann reports, a conventional union. Early on, the Perelmans went to Hollywood, where a fellow scenarist, Dashiell Hammett, once noted, "Last night I ran into Sid . . . and wound up by doing a little pimping for him." Soon afterward, Hammett and Laura had a brief fling. It was, Herrmann speculates, "perhaps her way of punishing Sid for his numerous infidelities...
...federal narcotics enforcement on a broad front. Just before final adoption, a handful of Senators on the floor shouted through a resolution pledging to find the money later. Appropriations Committee Chairman Mark Hatfield, who was behind the maneuver, was not proud of it. "It's a gimmick," he admitted afterward. "All we're doing is Band-Aiding ourselves over the obvious obstacle of the election...