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...tried to be gracious. It is "a remarkable example of modern art," pronounced Sir Winston Churchill at the unveiling in Westminster Hall in 1954 of his 80th birthday present, a portrait commissioned by Parliament and painted by the famed English neoromanticist Graham Sutherland. But his remark was tongue in cheek, and the audience roared. Winnie thought the portrait, which had a gloomy, resigned-to-age air about it, made him look "half-witted, which I ain't." His dutiful wife Clementine put it out of sight in the basement and promised her husband that it would never...
...mightiest of rock groups. The Atlanta crowd was not knocked breathless by the Pistols, but they obviously had some of the fun Rotten urged upon them. It was not a typical punk assemblage of street-wise rowdies, although one fellow showed up with a safety pin punched through his cheek. The kids pelted the performers with a friendly barrage of crumpled paper cups and, as the Pistols' big beat went on, twisted and swayed on their feet. They had no choice: the place had been designed without seats to encourage informality and mingling. Imagine, no furniture to break...
...what he had unleashed: "Lord, Lord, get me out of this mess." Happily, someone did. State Highway Commissioner Charles L. Miller suddenly announced a $500,000, one-lane bridge for Vulcan, to be built within a year. All of which caused the New York Times to suggest, tongue in cheek, that if the Soviets were truly interested in extending foreign aid to U.S. communities, New York City would be a far more worthy challenge than Vulcan...
...apparently different but in fact all too similar ilk is David Felton's article on his seven years at Rolling Stone. Written in an obnoxious first-person style, the piece pretends to be an indictment couched in cutesiness, a tongue-in-cheek account of the trials and tribulations of a Rolling Stone "Lifer." Felton hurls the obligatory barbs at Wenner, whom he portrays as an insufferable tyrant prone to harassing Felton and other staffers who can't seem to meet a deadline. But it is all done in good fun, you see; despite all the apparent frustrations and hassles...
...quickie sex survey on men, intended both to rebut Kite's book on women and preempt her sequel on men, due next spring. Like Hite, Pietropinto finds what he was looking for. Beyond the Male Myth, co-authored with his agent Jacqueline Simenauer, reports-apparently without tongue in cheek-that men are sensitive creatures, intensely concerned with female orgasms, less interested in sexual pleasure than in love and companionship. Says he: "I think this explodes the picture of men as satyrs who have no feelings and don't care about women...