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...legend. He wakes up one morning and looks in the mirror -and there is a creased, faded, fuzzy carbon copy of the youth he once was. He is 40-odd, going to fat, bored with his job and his marriage. So-in the legend-he shaves, puts on his gaudiest tie, phones the boss to say he's not coming in, says so long to his wife, and walks off arm in arm with his mistress to find his soul...
...Hicks on the other hand stands for Boston isolationism and the desperate politics of alienation. Her final campaign ad this week answered her critics with the empty, emotional, defensive tautology, "I am proud of Boston and all its citizens." Significantly her gaudiest campaign promise has been the fiscally impracticable pledge to raise salaries for firemen and policemen to $10,000--an appeal to those who see only the first line of defense against urban disorders. Mrs. Hicks' long and undistinguished record on the School Committee revealed the same timorous commitment to defending institutional stability at the cost of shamefully...
...just love my nose-goes with the setting," said the masked guest, tilting his twelve-inch rubber proboscis toward the Tiepelo frescoes on the ceiling of Venice's Palazzo Ca' Rezzonica. It was the season's gaudiest Ballo in Maschera (masked ball), and more than 500 of the plumiest knights and dames of the international round table had donned their most expensive armor to dance, taste champagne, guess each other's identities and incidentally raise money for the Venetian artisans still suffering the effects of last November's widespread floods. When the masks came...
...early days, the Iroquois drank the health-giving waters of the Saratoga spa in Upper New York state. Today, the beneficial tonic is supplied in summer by the new Saratoga Performing Arts Center and the traditional race meeting. In the interim, the place was the nation's gaudiest resort, alive with scandals, gambling and frivolity. This book recaptures all of the" old magnificence...
...easily the gaudiest aviator in Asia. His trademark was a black flying suit-a legacy of secret night missions over North Viet Nam in 1964, dropping saboteurs. Afraid he might be dropped by Red ground fire himself, Ky designed the black suit to be less visible swinging from a parachute against the night sky. He also affected pearl-handled pistols in the cockpit, and has a considerable gun collection, to which he added in Honolulu with the purchase of a .357 Magnum and a symbolically-named Colt .45 Peacemaker. He also picked up a .22 revolver for the demure Madame...