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...passage in The Great Gatsby is more strangely moving than the list of party guests; the silly, nursery-rhyme names-Clarence Endive, Edgar Beaver, the Catlips-roll out like streamers. Yet Gatsby's parties were restrained compared with, say, the $200,000 "picnic" that T.C. and Phyllis Morrow of Houston threw last December for 1,000 friends, including Farrah Fawcett and John Travolta (who did not show), which featured a "country disco band." The emphasis of such fiestas is on the collecting of people, who if they cannot be owned outright may at least be rented...
...Lear, who died in 1888, is best known to modern readers for his limericks and nonsense verse. But contemporaries knew another side of the man. Lear devoted his early career to producing detailed paintings of birds, and his pictures, collected by Susan Hyman in Edward Lear's Birds (Morrow; 96 pages; $37.95), belong on the same shelf with Audubon's. The line drawings and sketches that accompany them shed new light on the man himself. Many artists have used birds to lampoon their fellow men. The owlish Lear used them to caricature himself...
...Lance Morrow...
...Lance Morrow...
...Morrow; 172 pages...