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...this gentle restriction. The Post endorsed Kennedy in 1960 and will back Johnson this year; Oliphant's attitudes are similar. "I tend to lean Democratic now," he said. "But I don't believe a cartoonist should come out one way or another." Newcomer Oliphant's first-blush impression of U.S. politics: "Very cartoonable...
...Vincenzi thinks that a pornographic movie might give Bobo some ideas. Trouble is, no blue film ever made was aimed at the genuine simian market. Fifi needs no such jogging. OB the contrary. Her lonely desperation has driven her to amorous lengths that are enough to make a gorilla blush...
This was the gaslight age, la belle epoque, an era doomed to end with the first shot fired at Sarajevo. The flamboyant demotic art of the poster captured this society in the first blush of its romance with technology and the full flush of its well-fed, self-confident romance with itself. Brimful of retrospection, a Paris exhibit covering the 1870-1914 flowering of poster art is making Frenchmen misty-eyed with nostalgia over the good, inexpensive, uncomplicated, sensuous old days...
Gentle, high-minded and peaceable stands the artist at his easel, mind, heart and soul intent on creation. Shrewd, suspicious and materialistic stands the artist in the marketplace, protecting his interests with a zeal that would make a pawnbroker blush. The most meaningful U.S. marketplace is the auction room at Parke-Bernet Galleries in Manhattan; and when Parke-Bernet announced for last week an end-of-season clearance sale of modern masters that promised to set prices, the art world got alert...
Generations of these canal employees have cultivated an American type of "blimpism" so blatant that even their idol, "Old Roughrider" Teddy Roosevelt, would blush with shame...