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...Service detail went pale as I climbed in and we took off down one of the narrow roads that run around the perimeter of Camp David. At one point there is a very steep slope with a sign at the top reading, "Slow, Dangerous Curve." Even driving a golf cart down it, I had to use the brakes in order to avoid going off the road. Brezhnev was driving more than 50 miles an hour as we approached the slope. When we reached the bottom, there was a squeal of rubber as he ... made the turn. After our drive...
...hoping the state will find it impractical to arrest and cart off all those bodies, since it practically bankrupted the state to hold the protesters last year," Garrison said, adding that this year's demonstration is expected to be several times larger than last year's 2000 protesters...
...plied hundreds of doubters with 100-proof Maxwell House coffee, and it may yet be proved that in the interests of the republic he authorized a three-martini lunch for a recalcitrant Senator or two. It is a fact that first-class limousine service was employed with abandon to cart the doubters up and down Pennsylvania Avenue...
...they are waxworks of a superior kind. At 53, Hanson has taken his craft beyond the limits of Mme. Tussaud: one can get within two feet of his Man with Hand Cart, 1975, and the only thing that demonstrates the wrinkles and veins are not real aged flesh is the figure's immobility. Astutely, Hanson generally reinforces the illusion by preventing the figure's eyes from meeting one's own-nothing gives the game away quicker than a glass eye that cannot blink. His work belongs in the context of photorealist painting, but it incorporates more illusions...
...paintings of Washington may be around. Stuart also had plenty of imitators. Many people stumble across a painting of Washington and dream of a Stuart bonanza. Says Monroe Fabian, an associate curator at the National Portrait Gallery: "The paintings come in here in brown paper bags and boxes. People cart them in from halfway across the country." A genuine full-length Stuart, he adds, would be worth "somewhere in the seven-figure range...