Word: bustingly
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...your Feb. 8 cover portrait: the hat may be that of Napoleon, the bust that of Louis XIV, but the words coming from le grand Charles's mouth can only be those of that witty but cynical monarch Louis XV: "Aprés moi, le déluge...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art last year attracted 4,291,200 visitors and topped even 1961, the memorable "year of the Rembrandt." when more than 1,000,000 saw the museum's bought-at-auction $2,300,000 Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer. Chicago's Art Institute showed a nice rise to 884,500. Boston's Museum of Fine Arts got a 20% increase in attendance...
...background of Pepto-Bismol pink, her orange hair providing the final color clash that makes the whole thing undulate provocatively before the eyes. Another, in a great Flanders Field of a poppy-covered hat and a gold choker, stands scornfully akimbo; only the candid bareness of her monolithic bust keeps her from being some long-remembered Miss Gardner scolding the second grade before the class picnic...
...whereas in the same circumstances a hard hand should stand at 17. And when the dealer shows a four, five or six, a hard hand should stand at 12 (because with a four, five or six in his hand the dealer runs a considerable risk of going bust), whereas a soft hand is advised to draw another card...
...once safely at West Virginia, Thorn seemed something of a gilt-edged bust. An A student in high school, he fretted about missing classes when the team was on the road, stayed up so late studying that his basketball suffered. In a Southern Conference tournament, Thorn fired a shot at the basket from just 20 ft. away -and missed the backboard by 10 ft. Confused and exhausted, Thorn developed insomnia and a chronic sore throat. At length, he dropped out of school for a semester-for fear of getting a C on his record. "I was so sick mentally...