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Alben Barkley, with a stuffy nose and a racking cough, presided over the Senate in the old Supreme Court chamber* where there is barely room to swing a cat. Occasionally, he tapped for order with the tiny blob of ivory that serves as his gavel...
...reproduction firms, Janine explained, "concentrate on color alone. But a painting has texture as well. To simulate that we use dozens of materials: cardboard, paper, stencils, canvas, silk screens . . . Sometimes we use as many as seven different processes to reproduce one original." Janine and Jean had built each blob of pigment up to the same thickness as that in the original paintings. They made as many as 600 facsimiles of each painting, sold them for $15 to $20 in Paris. The copies will soon be retailed in the U.S. at $40 each...
...famed for his pale pastel turbans. One picture (by Denmark's Olav Mathiesen) of a shy nude and a knight was called Chaucer-Woman in Bath; Mexico's Victor Manzanilla-Schaffer, of U.N.'s narcotics division, contributed an abstraction which looked like a one-eyed blob of ectoplasm, called Ritmo (Rhythm). Asked a wag: "What's that? It looks like UNESCO...
...ship's sides, played hoses on people burning alive at the rails. One man climbed down, moaning "No, no, no, no!" He fought police who tried to lead him away from the pier, shouted: "I've got seven people on that ship!" Another had a grisly blob stuck to his hands: he had tried to beat out the flames in a woman's hair, had come away with part of her scalp...
...matter from its heavy protein diet is stored in an internal sac until the baby mud dauber has finished its food store. Then the larva develops an anus and excretes the entire sac into a back compartment of its bedchamber. It seals off the narrow connecting passage with a blob of quick-hardening cement, secreted especially for the purpose, so that it can spend the winter hygienically in the clean, dry front chamber...