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...shown intact -- the collections of Gachet, Chauchard, Kaganovitch, Personnaz and others -- were also folded into Orsay. In all, the museum's holdings comprise 2,300 paintings and 250 pastels, 1,500 sculptures, 1,100 miscellaneous art objects from furniture to enamel plaquettes, 13,000 photographs (a collection built from scratch in the past eight years) and a large but unspecified number of architectural plans, mock- ups, details, fragments and models...
...harangue on the fragmenting of capitalism; the lobster centerpiece revolves and glows. A middle-age executive, alone in his office late at night, practices a sensuous boogaloo. In the cozy heart of Reagan's America, the renegade spirit stirs. And Byrne is unlikely to care whether you laugh or scratch your head...
...especially in such inverted cliches as "Symbols are just a way of saying something more directly" or "Miss Edwina (his mother) can best be described as a Prussian general -- an inefficient Prussian general." His phrase turning is ornamented $ with borrowings from other writers ("I like Dorothy Parker's line 'Scratch an actor and you'll find an actress' ") and fellow melancholics ("Tallulah said . . . 'If I had my life to live over again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner' "). The evening's reverberant themes are guilt at having abandoned his troubled family, which was the nub of his first...
...with a 21-0 advantage, Duffner had his team attempt an onside kickoff. At this point I began to scratch my head...
...panicked when they threw a hand grenade at the passengers." At that point, said British Passenger Michael Thexton, "everyone made a dash for it. I climbed out onto a wing and jumped down onto the tarmac and ran." Catherine Dumas, of Lafayette, N.J., who escaped the plane without a scratch but suffered a sprained ankle when a nervous ambulance driver ran over her foot, called the scramble "one of those Three Stooges comedy situations." By that time the Pakistani commandos | were moving in on the plane. Moments later, when one of the terrorists attempted to escape by melting into...