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...Duke of Berry's belief in a connection between riches and virtue was quite like J. Pierpont Morgan's. He collected nearly every imaginable kind of art object, from panel paintings to antique cameos, from medallions to tapestries, and even a unicorn's horn given to him by the Pope. The result was a triumph of manic connoisseurship-the greatest private collection in Europe...
...umbrellas can be wrestled from the grasp of a struggling victim and turned against him. Sprays, for all their sophistication, have a nasty and altogether self-defeating tendency to blow back in the user's face. There is even a drawback to "Super Sound," an ear-piercing air horn attached to an aerosol can and designed to summon help while startling attackers. It can damage the hearing of mugger and muggee alike...
...trivial drudgery: she swears that gone are the days when, the country weekend over, the rest of the family sat out in the car waiting for her to pack up the last carryall and check the last stove burner, giving her an occasional impatient blast on the horn...
...sensible person into retirement. Fortunately for the world, however, Colwell is so demented that he continues performing phenomenal music for obscure personal reasons. The core of his band consists of Colwell on lead guitar, a second guitarist with a flair for wah-wah, bass player, drummer, and sax and horn players. On Saturday night, these six were joined by the eccentric "Chicago Bob" on harp-vocals and three other men who alternated at guitar and piano. Where Montgomery's act is informal and charismatic, Colwell's music is a tight, highly professional brand of blues virtuosity. Colwell repeatedly ripped...
...Then I started thinking about noise," Kaufman added. "That thing (the garage) is going to be open all night. If one guy sits on his horn, it's going to wake up the whole building. It's a common practice in parking garages to honk your horn as you come around a corner. Even if it happened only 15 nights a year, we would consider it an imposition...