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...Cigar Hunt. When Mrs. Ballou isn't bear-hugging her little darling, she likes to gaze fondly at her college diploma framed upon the wall. Some people, she points out to Benjy, lack her advantages. The most conspicuous lackee is Daddy Ballou, a monosyllabic TV repairman. Daddy usually climbs into the TV set after dinner, or sometimes with his dinner, and fiddles with a few wires. Daddy and Mummy also play a game called "Cigar Hunt," which Mummy generally wins with the magic words. "All right . . . hand it over!" For Mummy's sake Benjy is anxious to straighten...
...early Gothic style. The aging St. Peter reads a prayer, while another apostle offers holy water, and a third blows out a candle, symbol of life. St. John, on the dying Virgin's right, stricken with sorrow, raises his cloak. The outer figures, by their startled gaze and uplifted heads, point to the next act-the Assumption of the Virgin to her throne of glory beside Christ, surrounded by angels...
...Anconia all have noble, proudly lifted heads, clear blue (or green) eyes, frank, open expressions. Such blackguards as traitorous Businessman Orren Boyle, Bureaucrat Cuffy Meigs, Parasite Philip Rearden have eyes that are "pale and veiled" or "small black slits" or "blurred brown"; they can never meet anyone's gaze; they have hangdog expressions and poor postures. In fact, the struggle is so unequal that it is a wonder it takes the capitalist underground twelve years and more than 1,000 pages...
...visit a cubist exhibition at Smith College, where his father is a professor, he promised to be back in two hours, so father could ride to his English class. When Professor Eliot stormed into the gallery five hours later, his son was staring at an early Picasso "with the gaze small boys usually reserve for double banana splits. A fatherly swat brought Alex to, but it also woke him. he recalls, to the sudden awareness that for him a painting might be more important than a bicycle...
...Lewd & Indecent." Comstock was strolling down a street in midtown Manhattan one May day in 1913 when the naked blonde vision, displayed in the window of an art gallery, caught his horrified gaze. Storming in, Comstock flashed his police badge and roared: "There's too little morn and too much maid. Take her out!" The gallery refused. Next day the story was splashed across the front pages of Manhattan's dailies, and the picture had become famous. Enraged cries of "lewd and indecent" were met with the New York Times's indignant defense that the picture...