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...most improbable bestseller of 1967 was Paper Lion, in which that professional amateur, George Plimpton, gave a Mittyesque account of his preseason tryout with the Detroit Lions' football team. Now comes an instant replay of Plimpton's adventure, presumably aimed at the millions of armchair quarterbacks who spend every Sunday afternoon in the fall glued to the pro games on TV. As a film, unfortunately, Paper Lion has all the interest of a five-yard penalty; it sadly lacks both the charm and sensitivity of the original...
Almost every parlor pundit in the country has his own theory about how-if at all-Hubert Horatio Humphrey can manage to save the day for the Democrats. The armchair strategy, which could be called Operation Resuscitation, would commit the Vice President to one of three more or less clearly defined alternatives...
Edouard Vuillard was, in his own words, an armchair painter. In search of subject matter, he rarely ventured beyond the Montmartre apartment he shared with his mother, and then only to the homes of his few close friends. The apartment also served as his mother's dressmaking shop; it was constantly alive with seamstresses and customers exchanging confidences about fittings, and cluttered with bolts of satins and silks, ribbons and pattern snippings. In this homely setting, Vuillard, who derisively referred to himself as "the in-timist," fashioned vignettes of quiet domesticity that suggest a less radiant...
...Internal Revenue Service probably does not know what to make of Bill Drake. How can he run a multimillion-dollar radio consulting service out of his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles? And that inflatable plastic armchair and the swimming pool in which it floats - are they taxable as luxuries or deductible as an executive suite...
...sits in an armchair made from antlers, munching a fine cheese taken from his bright yellow refrigerator, Schneider can never brood for long. After all, there are more concerts to be presented, neglected sonatas to be dug out, protégés to be promoted. "Plans I have for the future by the thousands," he says, brightening. "How many will work, I don't know. But without them...