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...Sunday Telegraph reckoned that he could have been elected president of the debating society on the spot. In Rome, where the family mystique is known as Kennedysmo, cab drivers cheered him and the paparazzi clicked their shutters as if Sophia were the target. In Paris he placed a bouquet on Marshal Alphonse Juin's coffin. France Soir captioned its picture: "The young lion of politics before the body of the old soldier." The newspaper also observed that the object of Kennedy's visit was "the White House-in 1972." That was all right with French voters...
...camel-hide hassock, the bouquet of used plastic flowers, and the two secondhand bedspreads were quickly snapped up. At week's end, only an exercise machine and a leather suitcase remained in the window of Jeanette Varoutsos' Memorial Shop for Blood
...David Katz, President of the Yale chapter of the International Meditation Society had been laughed down attempting to explain the Indian mystic's philosophy, Maharishi appeared, half an hour late. He was a slight, dark man with a gray beard who dressed in long white robes and carried a bouquet of flowers...
...popular among German tenors (a cashew-sized sliver two hours before performing is supposed to strengthen the heart) that one indignant Italian soprano recently went onstage with an aerosol can of deodorant. Tenor Franco Corelli thoughtfully combines his raw-meat and garlic diet with nibbles on a bouquet of parsley between scenes...
...result, Manet's professional life often reads like an endless scandal. The all-too-earthy goddess Olympia, which he painted in 1863, rocked an art world accustomed to nymphs and satyrs, emperors and gladiators: it was obvious from the bouquet of flowers carried by her Negro maid that a lover had just arrived. And when Manet combined Giorgione's Arcadian pastoral with postures from a corner of Raphael's Judgment of Paris, and then transformed them into all-too-contemporary figures, one of them in the buff, picnicking on the banks of the Seine, Napoleon III considered...