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...eyes, it is all part of a gigantic Franco-American plot. As the blonde, plump princess has been telling her 22,000 relatives ever since she set up the union in 1957, their common ancestor was one of 13 children of a poor Limousin farmer who fought with the Marquis de Lafayette in the American Revolution and was rewarded by a grateful Continental Congress with a huge farm in Vermont. He multiplied his fortune by 1) discovering oil in Vermont, 2) marrying a Creole beauty whose Louisiana father left them his gold mines, and 3) buying Chicago slaughterhouses. After...
...British Ambassador to The Hague for 600 florins. A surviving letter, signed by the artist, describes the work as "Daniel amidst many lions, which are taken from the life. Original, the whole by my hand." Rubens is often dismissed as a rote fabricator of effulgent flesh, of plump nudes and pillared panoramas of bestial warriors. His Daniel is, otherwise, dramatic proof of the baroque at its turbulent best...
...another historian, I commend you for honoring the craft with your cover story on Arthur Schlesinger [Dec. 17]. I, too, would plump for activism because of its merit to the interpreter of history. However, there is a factor in such associations that Schlesinger fails to emphasize. That is the gracious receptivity of men such as his President and my Governor to interloping historians. Access is the key to effective political participation and observation, and Kennedy and Scranton have literally opened their offices to public scrutiny...
...never stopped looking at New York through hillbilly eyes," says Tom Wolfe, one plump pinkie gracefully arched as he fastidiously sips beer in the CRIMSON sanctum. "My grandfather fought in the Civil War for God's sake... Yes." Virginia born, he doesn't look much like a redneck in the custom made three-piece herringbone suit, in the custom-made white on white silk shirt with little diamonds, in the silk foulard and tie or side buckle shoes. Even less so when dressed for the street, another silk foulard peeping jauntily out of the breast pocket of his Chesterfield...
Fantasy completely takes over when the consort, on a world tour, stops at the Backward Islands, a tropical paradise ruled by a plump old bawd of an empress who believes that her subjects should do what comes naturally. What comes most naturally is dancing, making love, and drinking; and once he gets the hang of it, the consort finds he has a natural bent for doing the same thing. He beds down with a nubile native girl named Tia and sends the royal yacht home without him. Soon three gung-ho paratroopers arrive by helicopter and forcibly take the consort...