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...Katherine Reid, 66, who in the 1920s made quite a name for herself on stage and screen, has started up that long comeback trail. Billing herself the "world's only lady gator wrestler," she sees no ordinary run-of-the-reptile return. She wants to gild her scaly and do guest shots on TV shows "walking on a red carpet after they show my old films." See you later, alligator...
...clear battle plan for the Republicans on Capitol Hill. Both, moreover, seemed oddly at contrast, in spirit and specifics, with the creative pragmatism expressed by young G.O.P. freshman Senators who have taken positions, as well as seats, in Washington. Dirksen, who had risen at 4:30 a.m. to gild his rococo verbiage, never found the time-or need-to consult anyone but himself. "I've tried that consultation business," he said, "and I find it takes a year to get a consensus. The devil with that. If they want to try me for party deviation, they...
...stepped wear ily from their American-built Sabres and Starfighters. On the Plain of Sialkot, tank-recovery vehicles clanked up to the hulks of shattered Indian and Pakistani armor to drag them off for salvage. In New Delhi and Rawalpindi, Indians and Pakistanis began to count their dead and gild their battles of the last three weeks with claims of victory...
...these splendors just gild what was already there. Even within a single gallery, the Met is worth a thousand and one days of exploration. Only the Louvre and Leningrad's Hermitage, among museums outside of Holland, rival the Met's Rembrandts. Hanging in honeycomb luminosity are 33 of the Dutch master's softest illusions, from his early white-ruffed burghers to intense portraits of his mistress Hendlrickje Stoeffels to his jeweled Old Testament parables and his bravura Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, the costliest work of art ($2,300,000) ever auctioned...
...within the first twelve days, and last year only one-tenth of 1% reached charities. Filene's describes any faults of its items on a dated tag, refunds the customer's money whenever damage or irregularity is too great. Says Hodgkinson: "It doesn't pay to gild the lily to the point where it dies...