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John Smith, former president of the men's club, and his wife Ann looked in on the bar. "I don't drink," said Ann, "but I love it here. I have a cousin, the shyest person in the world. His mother says to him, 'You need a drink, Arthur.' One night he had one, and he was the life of the party, a darling. Some people are like that; they need a drink to be darlings." Here and there, old people were dancing in rickety pairs. A line of widows linked arms and did the "alleycat...
...first performed at the end of the 16th century, Much Ado must have seemed as modern as Utopia. The main plot dated back to the Greeks: fair Hero is slandered, then allows her lover Claudio to think she has died. But the subplot, in which Hero's cousin Beatrice and Claudio's friend Benedick talk themselves out of and then into love, served up a sexual set-to whose rapier eloquence has inspired just about every British playwright of manners from Congreve to Coward and beyond. While Hero and Claudio played out their fustian collision of chivalry...
...1880s, Frenchmen were still talking about Japanese art as art pri-mitif.) When he did quote Tahitian art, Gauguin played fast and loose with it, basing (in There Is the Marae, 1892) a Tahitian fence on the design of a tiny Marquesan earplug. In his Tahiti, primitivism was cousin to Baudelaire's paganism and Delacroix's orientalism-a celebration of what Gauguin called "uncertain luxe barbare d'autre-fois" (a certain barbaric luxury of older times). It rested on sensuality and nostalgia. It was Paradise Depraved...
...million parcel of land near Los Angeles International Airport. Texas' Attorney General Jim Mattox boasted that the settlement would finance the state's annual cost of operating the agriculture department, the public utilities commission and the attorney general's office. Less ecstatic was Hughes' cousin William Lummis, who is administering the estate on behalf of 32 heirs. Said he: "I think they nicked us pretty good...
...across the fjord in Vangsnes (pop. 270) some folks, including Mondale's fourth cousin Gunda Langeteig, have a different view of history. Mondale's great grandfather, Frederick Vangsnes, was a native of Vangsnes, the town, she says. He went across to Mundal, where he married Brita Mundal and for some reason took her name. "If he had not done so, Walter Vangsnes would be the Democratic presidential candidate," she declares. The fjord rivalry has risen along with Mondale's fortunes. "We are not interested in a fight over which place has the thickest Mondale roots," insists...