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Farmer didn't have to go to Hollywood for that. She had a character assassin right at home: her own mommie dear est, Lillian. Six feet tall and fearsome as a Pauline Bunyan, Lillian made headlines in World War I when she crossbred a Rhode Island Red, a White Leghorn and an Andalusian Blue to produce a red-white-and-blue chicken-the Bird Americana-as she called it, which she proposed as the new national emblem. By the time of the next World War, Lillian was convinced that the Communists had driven her poor daughter crazy...
...than is her story, which is told in leaflets distributed by the P.L.O. as part of its public relations. A postcard showing Palestine in a respirator bears a printed message in French that may be mailed to friends and allies. It refers to "Technologic Israelienne"and swears that Palestine "est determinee a continuer la marche vers la liberte." Whether or not the baby has such determination at the moment, she will probably have it in four or five years. By then she may be an instrument of determination herself, her very name a beacon to other Palestinian children...
Interest rates continued their three-month-long slide last week, as many American banks dropped the bench mark prime inter est rate to 15½%. In September the rate stood at 20%. The moneymen were again following the pattern set by Southwest Bank of St. Louis, which ranks only 1,270th in size among the some 14,000 banks in the U.S. but is a leader in setting the prune. Two weeks ago, Southwest was the first bank to lower its rate to the new level...
...possess such miracles as wall can openers, crinkly cellophane and electric blankets. Nor do cats, like Kliban's cartoon meat-loaves, respond with interest to human grownup preoccupations. They pay no mind to politics, opera, opinion polls, fuel-stingy autos or nuclear proliferation. They remain unimpressed by est, Kiwanis, cocaine and PBS. Felines yawn equally at the reputations of Mick Jagger and Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Cats operate in an exclusive and maddening parabola of reality that can frustrate our lives or demand our attention and tune our sensibilities to more graceful things. While people argue about their courage, usefulness...
...fairly intriguing story, though Hoving told it more concisely in The Chase, the Capture, part of a book on collecting policy issued by the Met six years ago. Stretched to this length, it becomes prolix. Le style c'est l'homme, and Hoving's style reflects the character he showed when he was in power at the museum-windy, lapel-grabbing and insincerely populist. The tone is struck in the first sentence: "The vast halls of the Metropolitan . . . were awesomely still." All halls, tomes, sums of money and issues at stake tend to be "vast." Most stillnesses...