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...innocuous nudes, Giovanni Cardinal Urbani, the Roman Catholic Patriarch of Venice, declared the international art show off limits to all priests and nuns. President Antonio Segni thereupon absented himself as official host and prize giver. But this scarcely dimmed the carnival spirits of the cocktail set. Greek-born Iris Clert won the unofficial party-thrower prize by hiring a yacht, tying it up in the Grand Canal, and calling it the Biennale Flottante; inevitably, one of her guests was soon flottante...
...from Oklahoma. As always, the Biennale was one party after another. The ineluctable Peggy Guggenheim gave a series of luncheons and dinners at her palazzo on the Grand Canal. Entertaining at a Tiepolo-lined rented palazzo was the flamboyant Greek-born beauty, Iris Clert, whose far-out gallery in Paris is credited with discovering Jean Tinguely, inventor of machine-operated sculptures that destroy themselves, and the late monochromist Yves Klein, who used his nude models as "living brushes." Her star discovery this year was Harold Stevenson, a young man from Idabel, Okla. He dresses from head to foot in white...
...entered his employer's house, both eyes clert for anything herbaceous. Everything happened in less than a jiffy. The hostess was receiving her guests near the door. Mr. Pinkle had barely shook hands when he dropped to his knees and tore ravenously at her skirt. She screamed, Mr. Pinkle is eating my grass skirt. Look at me. The guests were not slow to do this. 'Now,' she wailed, 'I can't be a Hawaian dancer.' The next day Mr. Pinkle got a raise. His employer explained, my wife doesn't want to give any more parties. Her grass skirt...
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