Word: epitaphs
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...because, when the routine conventions of his work are subtracted, Boucher remains a startling and almost great painter. The sensuousness, the lively plasticity of drawing, the marvelous sensitivity to color and texture, the ironic grasp of elaborate mythologies and allegories still remind us of Talleyrand's wistful epitaph on the ancien régime - that no one who did not live before the Revolution can know the sweetness of life...
...President Nixon does not resign, and we, the people, allow him to continue to rule, our epitaph might be: "No one was killed, just democracy...
...Agnew gave us his own epitaph in 1969: "We can, however, afford to separate them from our society-with no more regret than we should feel over discarding rotten apples from a barrel...
...long before his death, Auden's best epitaph was written by British Critic Cyril Connolly: "Auden was for many of us the last poet we learnt by heart...
...romance with Maria Eva Duarte, then a third-rate actress of questionable reputation, did not help matters. Perón was a widower when he met Evita in 1943. His first wife, Aurelia Tizón, had died of cancer in 1938. Perón's ungallant epitaph: "Poor thing, she always bored me." Evita never bored him, but her captivation of Perón angered his moralistic, status-conscious colleagues...