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Accompanied by Barbara Marx, the estranged wife of Zeppo Marx, Sinatra arrived with a glare for everyone present. Maxine Cheshire, the Washington Post society columnist, approached Barbara Marx in the hotel lobby and introduced herself. Sinatra exploded. "Get away from me, you scum. Go home and take a bath. I don't want to talk to you." He continued, "I'm getting out of here to get rid of the stench of Miss Cheshire." While about 30 people looked on, Sinatra moved across the lobby, addressing a passerby: "You know Miss Cheshire, don't you? That stench...
...understand in The Star-Spangled Banner that he devised a phonetic version: "O seiken iu see bai dhi dons erli lait/Huat so praudli ui heild at dhi tuailaits last glimmin..." As for those who do comprehend the message, what is there to like? Images of "the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air" no longer evoke 19th century triumphs but this century's despair...
...concrete walls of the rooftop's boiler room and stairwell casements. An armor-plated Marine helicopter made repeated passes as the cops tried to blast through the walls, but the sniper shots kept coming. Finally, eleven hours after the violence had begun, one lone sniper darted under the glare of a helicopter spotlight, ran about 30 ft. in a zigzag pattern across the rooftop, and fell dead in a hail of police tracer bullets, his body riddled with more than 100 slugs...
...roof where the halves of the vaults meet, and is diffused by a perforated deflector slung on yokes. The light washes the plain concrete surface of the cycloids, gently blending warmer reflections from a white oak floor. Curve answers to curve, vault to channel. There is no glare on the pictures. Yet as the sun moves, the light, and by implication the space, changes subtly, like reflections in a pond...
...crush--and an empty rocking chair balances a spread umbrella--and on the roadside an enormous pahllic stone keeps company to a vast vaginal entrances--and a movie crew dangles precariously from a careening crane--all culminating in a thousand car jigsaw squeeze outside the Colleseum exploding with volcanic glare...