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...voting the money. His Dignity and Impudence is a coyly saccharine affair showing a drooping bloodhound trying to be oblivious to a cocky terrier sharing his kennel. And when he painted the Queen and the prince smugly relaxing after a hunt while a little princess royal frolics in a clutter of dead birds, he produced perhaps the most tasteless of all royal portraits. But it was not only his Victorian smugness that caused his failure. Said Critic Eric Newton in the Manchester Guardian: "He was not a good enough painter." He was, added the more acid Geoffrey Grigson...
...Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. Ill, edited by Leonard W. Labaree. The collected clutter of this astonishing man may occupy 40 volumes, but this one obviously is a prize; it contains his most important studies on electricity and Verses on the Virginia Capitol Fire, a witty parody on the fulsome prose of an 18th century Governor prying more money out of his legislature...
...problem is not that the informed citizen is looking outside of the newspapers for his information; the problem rather is that most citizens no longer want to be informal. They are content with the condensed (and often distorted) truth of the newsmagazines, and with the extraneous entertainment features that clutter the pages of modern newspapers. If you believe in supply and demand for the press, the editors and publishers are beyond reproach: they are giving the public just what it wants...
...with the new First Lady. Last July in Hyannisport, she was present when Jacqueline tuned in a borrowed television set to watch the Democratic Convention. Wrote Correspondent Chamberlin: "Jackie settled into a huge flowered arm chair, draped a striped beach towel over her knees, and spread out a vast clutter of paint tubes, palette, brushes, a glass of water, a glass of rose wine (left from dinner), a cup of coffee, a jarful of L & M cigarettes, and pulled an immense easel, with a half-started painting*, to a spot between her and the TV screen. When something was said...
...native Greece and confined by the Greek government to a small Aegean island. The story evolves around his attempt to get back in the money by relieving an exiled king Noel Coward) of his million-dollar crown. Revolving ever more tediously, it goes down the drain in a clutter of words-Package is perhaps the year's talkiest talkie Coward: "It's amazing how a girl so dumb that if you say hello she's stuck for an answer can reel off a three-hour lecture on why wild mink is better." Brynner, contemplating a statue...