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...Andy's chief possession, and he employs it outrageously. "Ah, well, I can't idle away a luv'ly morning like this," he muses, lying abed with the sun high. But the only way he knows to make money is to gamble. "Flo!" he shouts. "Fetch me football pools coupon up." He is no help around the house. "I thought I asked yer to notice when the pan boiled over," says Flo. "I did," says her spouse. "It was a quarter past eleven...
...Puglee cannot write. At first she sulks, then she pines, finally she fasts. But while she is fasting, she learns to write. One night Amulya comes to his room and finds a note on his bed. It reads: "Please come back. Your wife." Before he can go to fetch her, Puglee herself appears-chastened, subdued and glowing with love. But the tomboy is still alive. When Amulya asks how she got into his room, Puglee replies with her Mowgli smile: "I climbed up the tree...
...another. Today, they are the new bandwagon; and since the avant-garde public is so hungry for more and more avant, the pop artists are in the chips. Wesselmann can sell a collage for $2,500; a Claes Oldenburg Floorburger is priced at $2,000; and JarLes Rosenquist can fetch as much as $7,500 for a painting...
Simenti. When Mponda ambled by on the way to fetch water for her family, Elard the Crocodile dragged her into the river, broke her arm with his lashing tail, and finished her off with his finger-long teeth...
...Cuevas' notoriety grew, so did the appreciation of his art. In time, his compelling black and white figures, penned in hot haste as if they were apparitions that might disappear, began to fetch prices higher than the drawings of even Mexico's famed Rufino Tamayo. Of the 100 copies of his newly published Recollections of Childhood containing twelve original lithographs (Kanthos Press: $500), about half have already been sold...