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...love of audacious good fun. Each day Plucky Pierre crisscrosses the state by helicopter, dropping dramatically out of the smog to embrace an ever-present bevy of giggling Salinger Girls. Waving an outrageously gnawed cigar to the crowd and patting his portly frame, Pierre turns every stop into a garnish tongue-cheek extravaganza...
Thiebaud, like any traditional painter became interested in how light affected objects, particulary the garnish glare of bulbs and florescent tubes that made objects seem to swell with importance. When be drove across the country, he noticed soemthing else; the repetition of "the still life of the restaurant table" - the same salt and pepper shakers and napkin holders in dining rooms and roadside stands everywhere. Finally, after a trip to Mexico he found that what struck him most vividly on re-entering the U.S. was the gaudy luxury of the drugstore and hamburger stands. And so he began painting food...
Public prayer at civic functions is permissible only if it is doctrinally uncompromised. "Our national habit of utilizing prayer as a sort of ecclesiastical garnish to all manner of secular dishes ought to make the church circumspect." No prayer should suppress "the cardinal fact that access to God is by Jesus Christ and by him alone. To portray God, in prayer, as the good-natured old man accessible to all on any terms is to bely the Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ...
Making his pitch in This Week Magazine, aging (71) onetime New Dealer James Aloysius Farley, now board chairman of Coca-Cola Export Corp., unoriginally proposed: "Let's Put Our ex-Presidents in the Senate." Issuing a statement to garnish Farley's article, Octogenarian Herbert Hoover took a wryly negative stand: "I was in favor of giving former Presidents a seat in the Senate until I passed 75 years. Since then I have less taste for sitting on hard-bottomed chairs during long addresses...
...euphoria of Old Spontaneous Me ("Stay out of the act"). To White, style cannot be separated from sense: "The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one . . . Young writers often suppose that style is a garnish for the meat of prose, a sauce by which a dull dish is made palatable. Style has no such separate entity; it is nondetachable . . . The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity...