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...afternoon one of the policemen was squatting down next to some bearded youth having a butt and rapping amiably while two others were getting a free lunch at the hot dog stand. Even when Mr. Moynihan (former editor of the Nickle Muse and not to be confused with Daniel Patrick) and a ladyfriend tried to levitate three uniformed officers by dancing barefoot around them in a little known American Indian ritual--they were tolerantly bemused...
...Like a muse-spurned poet thumbing through the rhyming dictionary, Lyndon Johnson diligently seeks out the sayings of his embattled predecessors. Last month his favorite prophet was Abraham Lincoln. This month's oracle is his lifelong idol and sometime mentor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In his commentaries on the Viet Nam war last week, L.B.J. invoked F.D.R. to rally support for the cause...
...Montevideo and checked into an adjoining hotel room. Come check-out time and the Dark Lady of the Sonnets was still with him, hiding discreetly in one corner of the lobby while Evgeny bellowed at photographers: "Just one picture of me alone!" Then the poet and his muse popped into a Russian embassy car and headed for the airport, whence they left for parts unknown...
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...
...railway slope and watched the evening, Too beautifully perfect to use, And his three wishes were three stones too sharp to sit on, Too hard to carve. Three frozen idols of a speechless muse...