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...truth is that Bobby Hull used to be a good-natured fellow who wouldn't hurt a flea. But people were taking advantage of him. Things came to a head last year, when Bobby picked up only 32 min. in penalties and won the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy for sportsmanship-although he was hooked, held, tripped and checked so unmercifully that he missed nine games with injuries. Healthy, Hull scored 32 goals in his first 35 games; hobbled, he scored only seven goals the rest of the season, lost the scoring title to Teammate Stan Mikita. The Black Hawks...
Osborne's anti-hero is Bill Maitland, a London solicitor hung up on booze, barbiturates and the bleak self-knowledge that he is "irredeemably mediocre." He is pushing 40, a tooth-shy, flea-bitten leopard, all spots and no strength, restlessly, frantically, pacing the cage of his life-in-death. "In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost," wrote Dante; Inadmissible Evidence is, among other things, a threnody on the middle years, laced with caustic humor...
...Some were not even painted during the lifetimes of the artists to whom they are attributed," wrote Wildenstein. Among others, he named two so-called Claude Lorrains, a Boucher, a Watteau (which he described as "flea market quality") and a Courbet. As for the portrait of Ingres by David, "It is not by David and does not represent Ingres"; in fact, in 1796, it was exhibited as a work by Constance Mayer. Says Wildenstein, who consulted his reference library of 300,000 books before speaking out: "The Russians are simply making fun of us with this exhibit...
...political oratory and tall talk ("Bust me wide open if I didn't bulge into the creek in the twinkling of a bedpost, I was so thunderin' savagerous"). It spilled over in the invincible optimism with which new towns called themselves cities, hotel was any flea-bitten tavern, and opera house meant any public hall, with or without a roof...
...happy as a flea working at the White House for NBC," says Chancellor a bit ruefully. But Johnson, who had enjoyed many chats with Chancellor down at the ranch in Texas, changed his mind for him. "I found out what the Johnson treatment is," says Chancellor, giving his version of the arm-twisting technique: "He strips away your arguments-money, career-until he makes you see the job on his terms. So there is no ethical alternative...