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...getting blasted right back. "Are you ever mistaken for a man on the phone?" Broadway Gossip Earl Wilson asked her. "No," she rasped. "Are you?" Yet some of her best lines were about herself. "They used to shoot Shirley Temple through gauze. They ought to shoot me through linoleum," she said, while making up for a movie late in her career. Jezebel was the image she reveled in, and when a friend reminded her that Jezebel was thrown to the dogs, Tallulah replied: "Yes, but first she rode with kings and princes...
During his knockabout years, Westermann acquired an irreverent imagination and a keen respect for craftsmanship. The Last Ray of Hope is a highly polished pair of workman's boots (he spent two weeks polishing them) set on a platform of linoleum foil and enclosed in an immaculately machined glass box. They suggest a display in the front window of some country store with a cracker barrel and iron stove in side. The title apparently has some obscure relevance in Westermann's mind to his reverence for honest workmanship. Says Westermann: "I think they are beautiful. They...
...made advances. After he tried but was unable to have intercourse, she jumped out of the car and began screaming. Gary then began slashing her and, according to his alleged confession, she smashed her head on some rocks. Police also pointed to bits of supporting circumstantial evidence. A folding linoleum knife was found near the body, and Gary had bought such a knife in a local store. Also, his version of what she screamed ("I'm going to die! I'm going to die!") coincided exactly with what residents heard...
...love and he devotes his weekends to it. He works fast (most of the ninety or so paintings in this exhibit were done since June), but would welcome a more relaxed pace. Trained in all media, he makes use of whatever he gets his hands on--canvas, beaverboard, masonite, linoleum, oils, watercolors, acrylics...
Camel Droppings. After mastering the Rockettes' patented eye-high kick, explains Linda, the next most difficult task is simply learning how to survive on the Music Hall's big stage, a kind of block-long obstacle course with a jolting, linoleum-covered concrete floor. The three huge elevators that make up the sectional stage are so warped with age that they meet unevenly, varying as much as an inch in many spots. With that hazard, as well as puddles from a simulated April Showers, or droppings from camels in the Nativity pageant, or oil slick from a fleet...