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Lucy and St. Barbara. Or they might turn into an iconographical picnic: witness the orphrey-like cross on a heavy Dutch tapestry chasuble from 1570, depicting the children of Israel gathering manna (which floats, in white stylized roundels, from the sky), with Moses' bulrushes below, heraldic crests on both sides, and a motto that reads "We are bent, not broken by the waves...
...admirer of Neil Diamond, I was shocked and disgusted by the disrespect shown to him when Ethel Kennedy poured beer on his head at the McGovern-Shriver fund-raising picnic...
...They are talking about an illustrated parable concerning a seagull who learns aerobatics. They are talking about a volume so small that Winnie the Pooh could carry it in his hip pocket, and so unfleshly that a vestal virgin might choose to read it at a church picnic. In short, about Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the year's?and perhaps even the decade's?pop publishing miracle...
...which one of us he loves more by which song he sings first," said Eunice Shriver as she introduced her guest of honor, Rock Singer Neil Diamond. Eunice and Sister-in-Law Ethel Kennedy had both put in requests at a McGovern-Shriver fund-raising picnic. "This is a terrible predicament-I'm chicken is what I am," Diamond confessed. He tried to escape by beginning with some of his own favorites, then got up enough nerve to swing into Eunice's choice, Sweet Caroline. Ethel responded by creeping up be hind the singer and pouring...
Korin, it seems, was one of those exquisitely chic and talented spendthrifts whom the Japanese remember with fond envy. The son of a wealthy artist-merchant in Kyoto, he dissipated a fortune by such gestures as wrapping his box lunch for a cherry blossom-viewing picnic in costly gold-leafed and painted bamboo sheaths, then nonchalantly flinging them away into the river. But he was no dilettante. Korin's work embraced most mediums, even the decoration of plates, on which he collaborated with his brother Ogata Kenzan to produce works like the hexagonal iron-brown dish bearing a figure...