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...catalogue introduction, Philip the Good of Burgundy was such an impassioned buyer that his collection required a staff of 18 guards and varlets. In 1461, at the coronation of Louis XI, Philip gave the citizens of Paris a crushing display of his wealth by hanging tapestries by the bale from his town-house façade, "such a multitude of them that he had them hung over one another," as one chronicler noted...
...style of Horovitz's novel is really not far removed from his playwrighting style. The long flashbacks are very much like actors' soliloquies. His word choice is suggestive; he picks sounds out of the air and puts them into the sentences: "The daggered scoops drove heartily into each bale whoosh picked it up VZZZ carried it to the baths." He repeats words and sometimes even phrases in an effort to tie together ideas, though he is not as successful at it as Kurt Vonnegut. His connections do not possess the absurdity which enables Vonnegut to weave entirely distinct happenings into...
...spend the REAP money have been introduced. Says one of the sponsors, Iowa Republican Congressman William Scherle: "I don't blame the President for this. I blame those Katzenjammer Kids at the White House. They don't know the difference between an ear of corn and a bale of hay." Meanwhile Wyoming Democrat Gale McGee, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, says that he will refuse to hold hearings on or vote any money for the President's agriculture budget until REAP and all other impounded farm funds are restored. Speaking of the President...
Discovered in the late afternoon, lugging a bale of hay into his new horse barn, the author bears no trace of the morning's necktie. He is fairly tall, fairly well on into his forties (6 ft., 48 years). He looks like a prep-school teacher, and was once; he established the religion department at Exeter, and taught there for several years. Buechner has eight horses on the payroll, apparently the minimum for a city man who moves to the country with a wife and three young daughters. The girls also have a goat, a tribe of chickens...
...rickety track. Cambridge is a terribly funny comedian and a terribly unconvincing actor; St. Jacques is a splendid dramatic actor who comes on as a melodramatic heavy in such a farce. Everything that happens is supposed to be very, very black because the money is hidden in a bale of Mississippi cotton, and the pursuing detectives crash into a watermelon stand, and everybody goes around saying "nigger" and "Is that black enough for you?" Biggest joke: when the detectives discover that a white man was in on the heist, Cambridge rumbles, "Honkies in the woodpile...