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...enormous waxy-faced man carooms through the front of the crowd. He is rounder and crazier than helium balloon, and he's spreading false information about the march's route. Losing his temper a black man shoves his hand into the fat man face, crumpling a leaflet into his mouth. Under a bare tree, two securitymen twist the black to the ground. He's screaming, "I won't let any motherfucking son-of-a-bitch stand in our way." With cries of "police agent," and "white racist pig" the crowd tries to bounce the fat man into Park Drive where...
Taffeta Phantom. They are out of the familiar Rauschenberg image bank again, part random and part (one suspects) autobiographical: newspaper fragments, comic cutouts, a Cessna, a balloon, an octopus, buckets, a hand gripping a squeegee, an ostrich...
...dismayingly hearty life span. It will circulate for months, play the Saturday matinee route and eventually show up on television. The small screen, in fact, is probably more suitable for The Island at the Top of the World, where its dirigible would not look so much like a balloon left over from a parade, and its seething volcano would appear at least somewhat more menacing than an eruption on an adolescent's skin...
...Foot. Some of the rich, fearful that inflation will continue to balloon for the out-of-sight future, are living as high as ever; they believe that now is the time, as one wealthy Easterner puts it, "to turn cash into reality." Manhattan's Tiffany's reports that its bestselling breakfast item is "Diamonds by the Yard," a gold chain interspersed with diamonds that sells for about $333 a foot...
...Church. Calling their deed "a celebration of women in ministry," the Rev. Carter Heyward, 29, the Rev. Alison Cheek, 47, and the Rev. Jeannette Piccard, 79, joined in consecrating three home-baked loaves of bread and wine in three ceramic goblets. Piccard, who won fame decades ago for stratospheric balloon flights with her husband Jean Piccard, pronounced absolution; and Cheek gave the solemn blessing at the service's end-both acts, like the consecration, that are permitted only to priests in the Episcopal Church...