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Your account of the murderous assault attempted on Mr. Rountree leads me to think that any day now we will be able to persuade the Iraqis to accept a generous contribution from us. Just to keep them friendly, you know (and out of the lap of the Russians)-like Nasser (whose trained mobs stoned Americans passing out free CARE packages), and Tito (who has kindly accepted $900 million from us, and voted recently with Russia on the Hungarian resolutions...
...eyed Singer Tammy Grimes sounded wonderful-no mean accomplishment in the cramped quarters of Julius Monk's Downstairs at the Upstairs, a crowded Manhattan nightclub where the man who moves may catch his neighbor's elbow in his ear or his companion's highball in his lap...
...chair, with her back supported . . . She is turned slightly to the right with what appears to be a heavy, slow movement. [She has] matronly outlines that would not be expected in a 24-year-old Florentine model, and there is a heavy, vertical falling of the dress into her lap, suggesting pregnancy." As for the artist's approach, Da Vinci is known to have been fascinated by the phenomena of creation and procreation. The portrait's primeval background, said Dr. Keele, represents the Creation. Coupling this conclusion with what he believes to have been La Gioconda...
Diet Supplement. In Brisbane, Australia, Constance Toerkel won a divorce after testifying that her husband had eaten all the meals she set before him with a gun across his lap...
Capote dramatizes his conversation with elaborate hand gestures. He has a deft trick of touching his tongue, presumably for loose tobacco ("I never smoke those filter-tips; nothing comes through"), and then touching his fingers lightly on a napkin in his lap. He has a high nervous laugh when excited about something, and postures his head in a series of attentive or thoughtful attitudes...