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Three months after the death of Hubert Humphrey, his family has still not figured out what to do with the thousands of things that people sent him over the past 35 years. Stored in a musty basement of the Minnesota Historical Society in St. Paul are plaster busts of Humphrey and his wife Muriel, a doll made of apples and holding a copy of the Senate rules, a container of holy water from Lourdes, an eight-inch-wide cookie made of Rice Krispies and baked in the shape of a maple leaf, four whips (sent to him when...
...figure will be exceeded. The exhibition, which opened last week at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, includes more than 300 objects, from encaustic wall paintings to bronze figures, pots and glass, on loan from the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and the Pompeii Antiquarium. There are even two plaster corpses, dog and man, eerie and Segal-like in their necrotic beauty. Short of a trip to Pompeii, the show gives the best view of life in this fat province of the ancient world...
...Savigny-sur-Orge basement, to prevent him from gaining knowledge of his surroundings, the kidnapers forced Empain to remain inside an unlit camping tent. He spent his lonely hours making the few mental notes that he could-two dogs barking, a child crying upstairs, some cracks in a plaster wall he could see. Heavy chains were padlocked around his neck, and the temperature was kept frigid. At mealtime one of the gang would alert the prisoner of his approach by coughing; Empain would then have to draw a hood over his head and cough to indicate that he was wearing...
...usual, absent; for Free Spirit Sparky spring always comes late. He needs less time to get in shape than most pitchers and has used the delay to concoct elaborate arrivals, threatening to land on the pitcher's mound in a helicopter or hobbling to camp swathed in plaster of paris casts. But this year, Steinbrenner decided to exercise his Prussian sense of humor. He castigated the pitcher to reporters on the grounds that Lyle had a contractual obligation to report to camp early. Actually, Lyle was not bound to report until March 1. When he showed up-four days...
...Spinksian competition. This week Trikilis unrolls his newest poster, a pink-bikinied Cheryl Tiegs. Farrah is an "incredibly sexy girl," but Cheryl exudes that "healthful, fresh, mysterious-girl-next-door image," he says. The, er, sales figures will be interesting to watch: Can Farrah hang in there? Will Cheryl plaster her? The paper chase...