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...largest apartment in Manhattan, but it may be the airiest. Woody Allen's penthouse duplex is high above Fifth Avenue, and its glass walls provide an illusion of floating. Outside, in foreshortened perspective, like Saul Steinberg's popular poster, stretches much of the city: the lakes and woods of Central Park, the skyscrapers of midtown, the rococo parapets of the West Side. This is literally and figuratively Woody Allen's Manhattan: the movie's opening sequence, a montage of romantic cityscapes, was largely shot from the director's own terrace...
...Currier Gallery of Art, in Manchester, N.H., is a proud little sister to the nation's great metropolitan museums. Since it cannot approach them in size, it tries to rival them in quality. The public favorite at the gallery is a masterpiece of the airiest sort: Claude Monet's dappled evocation of a vacation on the Seine (opposite...
...nation's history, all drafted by Jefferson: the Declaration of Independence, A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Jefferson's three drafts for the Constitution of Virginia. Even in times of enormous stress his free-wheeling mind could shuttle between the gravest matters and his airiest interests. Writing to John Randolph on possible reconciliation with England in August 1775, he reminded him about a deal involving Randolph's fiddle: "I now send the bearer for the violin ... I beleive [sic] you had no case to her. If so, be so good as to direct Watt...
...Roosevelt's airiest broadcast recently the sponsors offered to anyone who asked, for it the recipe for the cookies fed to the King and Queen of England at a Hyde Park picnic a year ago. Requests: 30,000 and still coming...
...master key to the success and fame of Corcoran & Cohen. Historic is the White House party at which Tommy the Cork, playing his accordion and singing his ballads, charmed the Great Charmer. His tenor voice is honey smooth. His quick mind and tongue have a tenoctave range, from airiest wit to profoundest judicial deliberation. He handles people as a virtuoso plays a violin. Beneath his silkiness lies a mental toughness, a counterpart of the muscular toughness that enabled him to build a cabin on Mt. Washington with his two hands, makes him a tireless mountain skier and climber, lets...