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Even for bygone celebrities, Muggeridge offers malicious, revelatory anecdotes: "When D.H. Lawrence was dying he complained that his feet were cold, whereupon Frieda warmed them against her enormous German bosom ... a very symbolic scene worth remembering." When Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover, "was very broke, in desperation he telephoned to the Daily Mail an announcement that he had died. A long defamatory obituary duly appeared, and Douglas was able to collect...
Taxi (ABC). A fourth season of high-quality laughs from the Sunshine Cab Co. Taxi, WKRP in Cincinnati (CBS) and Bosom Buddies (ABC) are the win, place and show-off of current sitcoms...
What right had I to rip away from Italy a work of art which had been created within the very bosom of the land? What act of piracy were we about to commit? Suddenly I was shaken. But not for very long. Collecting meant taking risks. Collecting meant possession. The pulpit up there is San Leonardo already ahd enough sculptures. A seventh would only cause administrative confusion. By the time I had reached the top of the stairs I had tucked my ridiculous anxieties into the recesses of my mind, never to surface again...
Beneath the entertaining detective-chase motif, however, lurks the shadow of the seemier aspects of art acquisition. Even Hoving cannot help but allude to that most popular of methods of removing a piece from the bosom of its native country--smuggling. Harry Sperling, "The world's leading expert in arranging that almost any work of art you've seen, any place in the world, suddenly turns up safe and sound in Switzerland, eminently exportable to the United States," explains his technique to Hoving, a quick study...
DIED. Paul Green, 87, dramatist and screenwriter whose Broadway successes include the 1926 Pulitzer-prizewinning In Abraham's Bosom and the 1936 antiwar play Johnny Johnson, and who in 1937 wrote the historical spectacle The Lost Colony, the first of his 15 outdoor "symphonic dramas" that are staged across the country, mostly for summer tourists; in Chapel Hill...