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...amusing feedback loop between pop and commercial art. In 1962, at the peak of the Batman revival, Ramos got some mileage from painting the masked hero of Bob Kane's comic strip. Four years later, a Batman comic returned the compliment by illustrating a pop exhibition in the Gotham City museum; on the wall were paintings clearly meant to look like Ramos...
Roman Catholic priests, it seems, are bedeviled by false images in Gotham. According to Father George Thompson, vocations director of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, many New Yorkers see their priests in the Father O'Malley image made popular by Bing Crosby in Going My Way three decades ago-a genial sort of fellow who solves parish problems so deftly that he has plenty of time to write and croon catchy tunes. Others, whether Catholic themselves or not, view priests as troubled souls who may soon debark from the ministry to marry, or simply as the impresarios...
...style is offhand. California hip rather than Gotham sophisticate, and four-letter words stud her rap. She avoids high-fashion designer clothes, prefers casual wear such as blue jeans, pants and sweater outfits, often teamed with a crazy hat and tennis shoes. She does not own a shred of underwear -just a head...
...Ruler had dominated his peers, winning seven of nine races. He was subsequently voted Horse of the Year, an honor usually reserved for older thoroughbreds. After being syndicated for the record sum of $6,080,000, he opened the 1973 season with convincing victories in the Bay Shore and Gotham Stakes...
Lindsay told the assembled scribes that he had no doubt that he could win re-election in Gotham. Actually, his low standing in the polls and his lack of favor among the city's reform and regular Democratic leaders caused him to pass up a bid for a third term...