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...tragic sense of life-and on his own life, to be entitled, naturally, Out of Step. In addition, said Hook, "I will be chopping wood and carrying manure for my wife's garden." Beyond that? At one point during his lecture, he held out a clenched fist and asked his students: "If I had within my hand the date at which you would die, how many of you would like to know it? Only a foolish person would want to know, because he would die a thousand times in expectation of that date...
...fist to close on a finger...
...Anshutz was not the only record. A cast of Frederic Remington's bronze Coming Through the Rye-a typical example of the vulgar, illustrative fist that Remington, artist laureate to the Wild West, brought to everything he touched-became the most expensive American sculpture in history, at $125,000. The previous record for an American watercolor ($36,000 for an Edward Hopper in 1970) was broken three times-by another Hopper, Light at Two Lights, at $50,000; a Winslow Homer, Adirondack Catch, at $37,500; and Charles Burchfield's Black Iron, which brought $65,000. That same...
...inebriated, often sloppy, occasionally off-key crowd of louts who are proud of their loutishness. So Ray sprays the front rows with beer, during a drunken and therefore mock-puritanical version of "Alcohol," just before reminding us who he is, with "Skin and Bone," about Muswell Hill`s "fist, Bobby Annie;" and who he becomes, with "Yes Really Got Me," and "All Day and All of the Nights...
...sent to the editor. Undirected manias find a focus. The town's self-respect is felt to be eroding. "People are bringing the shutters down from their attics and putting them back on their windows," Updike writes. His story ends: "The downtown seems to be tightening like a fist, a glistening clot of apoplectic signs and sunstruck stalled automobiles. And the Hillies are slowly withdrawing upward. ..They are getting ready for our attack...