Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pierpont Morgan sat for the most succinct photograph of big money ever taken: Alfred Steichen's portrait of the financial titan glaring at the intrusive lens, an old, suspicious bull walrus, one hand gripping the chair arm as though about to reduce its mahogany to flinders, highlights glittering sharply on his eyeballs. He looks like a boiler on the verge of explosion. If Morgan had never felt the impulse to collect, this photograph would still have given him a place in the history of art. But it would have been a footnote compared to the one he occupies. Morgan...
...impervious to the show's doom and the feelings of their fans, Sonny and Cher seem content to rest on their considerable commercial success. That is to say, Sonny is. Cher's ambitions are already focused elsewhere. At the Grammy Awards, she showed up on the arm of Elektra-Asylum Records President Dave Geffen, humming...
...strip to the waist. As they remove their shirts, a discerning eye weighs the audience reaction. If the crowd doesn't respond, they do. It seems the pump-up tripper can't believe he's in his own body. He cocks his head, he digs his arm and digs ... and digs ... and digs ... And the show goes on. The fat have a contract with the iron to get slim, the slim work to get bulk, the got-it-together dudes keep it from disintegrating by frequent geezes of iron. If you have been casting a covetous...
...silver plate in his skull to guard a hole from which a brain tumor had been removed. One of his legs was made of metal and fiber; it took the place of the flesh-and-blood leg his mother had given him in her womb ...In his left arm, a platinum wire took the place of the humerus . . . One hundred years after he died they opened up his coffin. All they found were strings and wires...
That Eliot kept Emily at arm's length for five decades does not, considering his character, disprove the supposition of love. They met rarely, but Matthews is satisfied that Emily is the Aunt Agatha of Family Reunion and, more important, half of the "we" in the haunting passage at the beginning of Burnt Norton...