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GREAT HOUSES OF EUROPE, edited by Sacheverell Sitwell (318 pp.; Putnam; $19.95). All the sensations of aching feet and glazed eyes without leaving one's armchair: a photographic tour of Schlösser, villas and palaces, both grand and ghastly, built in the golden years of conspicuous consumption when the only foundations established by the rich were those intended to support their gilded dwellings...
From here on, the predictions become more and more of the armchair variety. Several area duels have been rumored...
...relentless red-dogs on the field and yapping jackals in the stands, 14 lacerating seasons in the National Football League had made a philosopher of the New York Giants' golden-armed Quarterback Charlie Conerly, 40. Congratulated on a brilliant performance against the Los Angeles Rams that temporarily silenced armchair coaches who argue that he should be benched because of his age, Conerly thoughtfully observed: "When you win, you're an old pro. When you lose...
Flailing dead turkeys is fun, and obviously it is profitable. But it takes precious little skill, and at this point accomplishes nothing in a positive direction. The image of Liebling sitting in his fat, stuffed armchair and laughing his head off at some of the articles he comes across hardly fills one with admiration...
...cripple's bedroom the door that leads to the terrace begins to bang. The girl wakes, wheels across the room to close it, sees a queer light flickering in the summerhouse, wheels across the terrace, opens the summerhouse door, looks in, sees her father sitting in an armchair-dead...