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...feels was stained by the former First Lady. In many ways, in fact, she seems as open as before. Upon learning that a local journalist had won a grant to study in the U.S., the President stunned the woman by calling her up to offer her an old winter coat...
...customs agents at Geneva's airport have seen just about everything. But when ten heavy sacks arrived for Catrel, a Swiss industrial-research firm, they were a bit surprised. The contents of the shipment: 1,000 lbs. of grapefruit rinds, hamburger scraps, coat hangers and other junk discarded by California homeowners...
After the meeting, trustees had to try to obtain their coats off coat racks near the protesters. Students kept the coats from the trustees shouting "No. If they want their coats, they'll have to divest first...
Inside, the elephant seemed perfect, down to the last coat of beige paint on the last iron rosette in its immense barrel vault, arching a hundred feet above the floor. The minute hand of its floriated and gilded clock, one of the largest in France, which since 1900 had declared the time to generations of anxious travelers, now moved in sedate jerks toward apotheosis. The Manets were in place. From the bay of Courbets, dense and dark, impacted with reality, one could look across the nave to their diametric opposite, Thomas Couture's pedantic warning to the Third Empire...
...head, this graphic energy is subordinated to volume, to the immobile self-containment of a man who, Van Gogh realized, "has seen an enormous amount of suffering and death." The chin and mouth are compressed, but the brow bulges irresistibly from its pale background, the relation between head and coat subtly maintained by the black strokes of hair and mustache and the unwavering darkness of Trabuc's eyes...