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...rumbles with televisions . . . . . . None of the little anthracite rabbits with carrot pink eyes are real. I know that now and feel burdened with all the eternal veritles. The ground beneath me is as soft as the tongue of an old giraffe. Where are we now, darlings? This suitcase has lost its charm...
...insurance. Buckley decides the answer is to make life impossible for the jobless. Stripped of its appeal, unemployment will then lose its clientele, and presto! A chicken in every pot. The same, naturally, goes for unwed mothers, who sin in the hope of higher welfare benefits. Take away the carrot, Buckley says, and matters will right themselves...
...home," squawked a loudspeaker hooked up to the electronically operated gate of his villa, Notre Dame de Vie. A few intimate glimpses of life within still leak out to the world. A recent visitor recalls a prudent Picasso who has sworn off chain-smoking Gauloises, drinks carrot juice at teatime, guzzles thyme tea at other times, and sips wine only sparingly. A lifetime of painter's discipline has not changed. After dinner, Picasso leaps up, announces: "Now I must work," and paints until 1 or 2 in the morning. And in his spare time he has just finished writing...
...money to the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. I finally agreed to give two-thirds of it to Bedford-Stuyvesant if one-third could be used for a smaller version of the cafe at the proposed site. For this offer, Mr. Hoving accused me of holding out "a carrot on a stick" to Bedford-Stuyvesant and causing racial unrest. There the matter now stands...
...audience of 100 spellbound in St. Bride Foundation Institute when they smeared Susan Kahn, a visiting New York schoolteacher clad only in a black strapless bra and black panties, from head to toe with flour, crushed ripe tomatoes, beer, raw egg, brightly colored powdered paints, cornflakes, half-chewed raw carrot, bits of melon and melon seed, milk, and tufts of moss and grass. Concluded the critic for the London Times, trying very hard to be broad-minded about it all: "The visual arts today are a kind of brothel of the intellect, and nobody can write a report...