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...your average car driver is muffled from: road surface, camber, radius of curve, angle of attack, lean. It connotes a unique mixture of aggression and vulnerability, and to have owned a fast bike is, in some degree, to be inoculated against the bloated status envy that goes with the plushier forms of American motoring. Bike manufacturers have gone to inordinate lengths to make bikes seem respectable. "You meet the nicest people on a Honda" was the message of a brilliantly devised advertising campaign in the 1950s designed to counter the undoubted truth that you met some of the nastiest ones...
Last week Heinz Weigt completed plans for a move to bigger and plushier quarters, which a Munich hotel is providing free. With the club will go one present fixture: an enlarged Watteau etching, from which an 18th century siren peeks suggestively out at the bar as she heads for the shrubbery with her lover. Muses Weigt: "She is the symbol of the club. You see how her wink follows you all around the room? She already has everything-yet she still wants something more...
When the directorship of an important art museum falls vacant, the directors of every U.S. museum perk up. In the game musical chairs that follows, even the lowliest may find a plushier seat. Last summer Perry Rathbone, director of the City Art Museum of St. Louis, was appointed to fill the directorship of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (vacated by the death of George Edgell...
...Beginning. The trouble is well illustrated by the case of Weegee (real name: Arthur Fellig), an inspired news photographer. When he first went to work for Acme Newspictures in 1923, he never got the plushier assignments, because he refused to wear a necktie. Later, he freelanced for several New York papers, and saw the big city as it had rarely been seen before, with a clear but compassionate eye for its brutalities, follies and tender moments (some of the results were published in a successful photo book called Naked City). He would cruise Manhattan all night. Explains Weegee: "Good pictures...
...about two years ago things suddenly changed. Brenda had moved into Los Angeles, installed herself as the madam of a call house and found plenty of prosperity. As business improved she shifted from the tacky Fedora Street neighborhood to plushier headquarters on Hollywood's Sunset Strip, later moved on to swanky Harold Way. Some of Hollywood's shiniest names became her steady customers. Brenda felt so secure that she even took a quarter-page ad in a film directory published by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; it was a nice refined ad -just a couple...