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After reading the mush about Paul Newman, one longs for an earthy assessment of him. A little humor or ribbing of Newman, the liberal who lives in an East Side Manhattan apartment, a country place in Connecticut and a home in Beverly Hills could have washed down that goo. Your story reminded me of Zelda Fitzgerald's remark to Ernest Hemingway upon seeing Al Jolson, "Don't you think he's greater than Jesus...
...geniality, it is difficult, a current aide complains, to get Reagan to concentrate on the specifics of a problem. Says this adviser of his sessions with Reagan: "I have to prepare a script. Otherwise he will get me off the subject and turn what I have to say to mush. I have about six or seven minutes, and then he guides the conversation." Says Meese: "He is such an entertaining person that the conversation may drift...
...illustrations of Sir John Tenniel, Alice is again being produced by Le Gallienne, 83, who makes a flying appearance as the White Queen. After the relentless rehearsals, Burton, 25, observes, "my head is so full. It's been so hard that my head is sort of mush." Very Alice-like indeed...
Crotti's barnyard brainstorm has already undergone tests at a 31,500-gal. spill in the Mississippi River 20 miles downstream from New Orleans. The oil had spread over a 14-mile area, washing into coves and turning the marshy ground into a black mush the locals call "gumbo." While strings of floating booms helped contain the spill, a four-man team from Peterson Maritime Services, the largest private firm in the gulf area treating oil spills, began tossing out about 100 lumpy white squares from their flat-bottomed swamp boats. Almost at once, the muck began to stick...
...relocated near the women. Heads shaved, they seem of one sex or of none. Some are naked. They are penned in a small dark space; they smell of urine; their thighs are stained with excrement. They seem to moan continually. One boy shivers, another laughs. A legless girl spoons mush into the mouth of a younger one. A woman lurches forward and shouts in English: "I am normal...