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WALKING down a headquarters hall or a ghetto sidewalk, his gait halfway between a lope and a swagger, Tom Reddin looks every inch the Compleat Policeman. If his huge hands, barrel chest and easy Irish smile do not betray his occupation, his glib, salty speech is unmistakably that of the lawman...
Shooting Times. In Angelof's dingy $40-a-month Manhattan apartment, police found the walls decorated with photographs of Hitler, Goebbels and Goring. On a chest of drawers lay the May issue of Shooting Times. Born in Bulgaria, Angelof deserted his country's army in 1965, slipped across the border into Greece, and entered the U.S. as a refugee in 1966. The Central Park episode would not have been so prominently noted had it not occurred on the fringe of Manhattan's safest and most comfortable East Side enclave...
...trend signaled by Documenta IV. Edward Kienholz's grotesque nude on a sewing machine inhabits a macabre room furnished like a brothel. New York's Paul Thek shows a roomful of chunks of dead flesh sculpted in wax. Italy's Michelangelo Pistoletto presents sarcophagi and chest-high chamber pots. Sweden's Oyvind Fahlstrom is represented by Firing Squad, a plastic snowbank filled with cryptic symbols including L.B.J. on a cross, bugs and butterflies...
When the four nobles appear disguised as "Muscovites," they have white satin trousers and tall black-fur headgear with chin straps, and disport amusingly like a quarter of Don Cossacks. The messenger of sad tidings, Mercade (Barry Corbin), turns out to be an ambassador complete with chest decorations, attended by a pair of underlings carrying umbrellas and the indispensable attache cases...
...Picking a good horse," insists Stanley Dancer, 40, "is like picking a good girl friend. You look for soundness of legs and stance, broad chest and rear end, good shoulders and ears." Chacun a son gout, but as long as he sticks to picking horses Dancer (not to be confused with such animal namesakes...