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...after the Iberian castle Dali bought for his late wife Gala) is not so terrific: no House of Lords, no special privileges. The new marques is as contentious as ever, however. Last week he reportedly claimed that organizers of a retrospective had included 80 bogus canvases in the show. Pooh to Pubol, says one of the organizers, his former personal secretary Peter Moore. The works are more than surreal, they're real...
...Adelphi Theater a fortnight ago, and those loyalists who had come were applauding their own memories as much as the D'Oyly Carte production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado. Listeners knew not just Nanki-Poo's Wandering Minstrel ballad by heart, they knew Pooh-Bah's dialogue. They would have grumbled if any of the costumes, designed by Charles Ricketts in 1926, had been changed. But of course, there were no changes...
...foot in an upside-down position, it will land on its paws in an incredible 1.8 sec. Its whiskers transmit complex information about its prey and surroundings to nerve bundles beneath the skin. According to one parapsychologist, the cat may even harbor a trace of E.S.P. A feline named Pooh, for example, who wandered off before the owners moved some 200 miles from Newnan, Ga., to a small town near Spartanburg, S.C., turned up at the family's new back door a year later...
...major row erupted. Some scientists welcomed the ban, contending that the synthetic compounds-like Freon -were destroying the earth's ozone layer, a shield against the sun's ultraviolet rays. They warned that loss of ozone could cause more cancer and perhaps alter the weather. Other scientists pooh-poohed such doomsday scenarios as unproved...
...Grigson pooh-poohs such faintheartedness. He believes that during an hour of examining a defendant's past and searching for remorse, he can determine the likelihood of future violence. "Some prisoners really get their rocks off telling you about these horrible crimes," he says. In a few cases, Grigson has offered an opinion without conducting an interview, relying only on the suspect's record. "With enough evidence and arrests," he maintains, "you can show where a person is coming from." About a third of the time, the pretrial interview convinces Grigson there is hope for the defendant...