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...busy?" the Junior Partner said. "There's about 3 million people in this country who own videotape recorders and I think we got calls from every one of them." He pulled papers from his briefcase like Kleenex from a box. "You know Sony expects to take this to the Supreme Court...
...does it. To be sure, there are those who cannot help themselves-teen-age girls, for example, or the members of the National Rifle Association (who all write the same letter), or the people with urgent messages for public figures, which are usually written in green ink on triangular Kleenex. These are the extreme compulsives. But there are many calmer citizens, as well, who cannot bear to leave the stationery stationary, and thus get themselves into deep trouble. President Reagan's son Mike was among these recently when he wrote a letter soliciting military contracts, and dropped his father...
...Scorsese's purpose. Raging Bull is about a parochial way of life, the mores of Italians moving up in the Bronx after the war. As a period piece, the movie is astonishing in its particularity--every detail is right, from the shirt collars to the old-style Kleenex box in LaMotta's bathroom; from the night at the Copacabana (where all the Italians of that era used to go for their big night out) to the Souvenir Special Club (there are still dozens of them all over the Bronx--they all have Venetian blinds in the front plate-glass window...
...used car lot, up against a graffiti-covered wall. That is, one imagines the T-Bird is black. Caked with an impenetrable layer of L.A. dirt, the broad-flanked sedan could be chartreuse for all anyone can tell. Inside floats a clutter of unmailed bills, unopened letters, wadded-up Kleenex, a portable AM radio (antenna broken), a cardboard box full of old, yellowing T-shirts, and a paperback wedged in the crevice where windshield meets dashboard. Its title, Invade My Privacy, is fading fast in the sun. The auto's left rear fender sports an elaborate decal -- Blue Valentine...
...published by Viking next fall, Duncan describes how, in the course of preparing some Picasso canvases for photography, he took a swipe with a feather duster at a 1938 self-portrait-and smudged a part of the canvas. Writes Duncan: "I spent the whole morning dabbing with spit-moistened Kleenex trying to reduce the damage, to clean away the smudges." By lunchtime, the hour at which Picasso usually got out of bed, Duncan, his face gray-green, had to confess his crime. "What's happened?" asked the artist, thinking Duncan had crashed his beloved 300 SL Mercedes. After hearing...