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...Northern Ireland." Fogel is contemptuous of the middle-class politicians who dominate the Unionist Party. His view of a local Unionist M.P., who was seeking his vote: "He was wearing a mohair suit. There are no mohair suits around here. His face was brown as the wood over the mantel. My face is lily white because I can't go off to the Bahamas on a holiday. I chased him down the bleedin' street...
...money or none at all?usually none at all. At one point she was living in a little hotel in Santa Monica. When a newspaper or magazine would ask for an interview, she would borrow a friend's house, put her own pictures on the mantel and try to be there before the reporter showed up. When Judy was on tour, the whole brood, which eventually included Liza's half-brother and half-sister Joey and Lorna Luft, had to learn to put on layers and layers of clothing and waddle out of a hotel, leaving behind their luggage...
...formal living room once the main set of a CBS documentary, "Hunger, U. S. A.," Mayer wiped a squash stain from his suit and showed me the bound volumes of his 400 published articles on the human hunger and thirst mechanisms, and his definitive book on obesity. Above the mantel piece hung a portrait of his father Andre in World War I uniform. The soldier of the portrait was the first scientist to relate human behavior to measurable physiological changes. Although the son Jean studied history and philosophy as a 17-year-old senior at the University of Paris, Jean...
...children, we learn that this is the established, and the acceptable, relationship. Dexterous first-grader that I was, I learned to be a prolific potholder producer, and every Christmas Eve, I would leave two of the potholders on the mantel for Santa. It was understood that he would take them black to Mrs. Claus, who would be expected to use them to cook. For Santa himself, we left cookies and milk or after-shave lotion. Male chauvinist, to say the least...
Bouvier's performance was only slightly less animated than the portrait of herself that hung over the mantel. And Adapter Capote, who is now writing an original play for his friend Lee, apparently needs a change in muse as well as Duse; the melodramatic script was scarcely the sort of thing he does best. Hanley's Flesh and Blood is the saga of a construction worker's family with all the woes of Eugene O'Neill's Hartford clan but none of the dramatic impact. Even such a formidable cast could not sustain the numbing...