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...exhibition sometimes argues with its own thesis: often the subject must have selected a likeness to amuse a friend or cloud the public image. William Faulkner, who liked to characterize himself as a back-country farmer, chose a gelatinous, Hollywood-issue publicity shot, with only his pipe in sharp focus, to give to the woman who would become his mistress. The message Faulkner intended to convey with the photo-apparently taken during one of his scriptwriting stints-is as blurred as his visage...
...seemed to lumber ponderously down the runway for years, but now cable television is definitely airborne. A quarter of the nation's 77.8 million TV homes are hooked up to one of the 4,600 local cable companies that pipe into living rooms everything from first-run movies, hard-sell religion and soft-core porn shows to kiddie programs and the proceedings of Congress live. Cable-systems owners, present or prospective, are as hot on Wall Street as genetic engineering firms, and advertisers are beginning to eye cable TV as a promising vehicle for commercials. Though at present...
...library and the ceremony were like Ford himself-low key, square corners, functional and direct. Ford presided, with his pipe and his smile at the ready, looking a dozen years younger than...
...Valentine's Day, 1975, Sir Pelham, 93, fell asleep in his chair, pipe half filled, writing materials beside him. So lived and died the character P.G. Wodehouse had labored to create: a perfect gentleman and a happy writer...
...keeps a computerized inventory of all street surfaces, curbs, gutters, sidewalks and stop lights. Water-main breaks and cracks in the pavement are rigorously recorded, as are the costs of repairing them. The city, for example, annually cleans out 26% of its sewers, and trouble-prone stretches of underground pipe are inspected by subterranean television cameras...