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...Necktie Is a Poem. The neckties-some of them are made of paint, while others are real ties painted over-are for Dine "remembered symbols that are important because they keep coming back. I used to write poems in the shape of neckties." All the paintings, whether of a shoe or hat or necktie, are labeled shoe or hat or necktie, because Dine likes to repeat his theme "over and over in your head like a textbook...
...Khrushchev and to warn him against miscalculating U.S. determination in the cold war. He knew beforehand that Khrushchev was tough-but only at Vienna did he discover how tough. "The difficulty of reaching accord was dramatized in those two days," he says today. There was no shouting or shoe banging, but the meeting was grim. At one point Kennedy noted a medal on Khrushchev's chest and asked what it was. When Khrushchev explained that it was for the Lenin Peace Prize, Kennedy coldly replied: "I hope you keep...
...must congratulate you on your excellent coverage of the current crop of children's books ["The Condemned Playground," Dec. 15]. However, it was the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe who was responsible for the "one-woman population explosion," and not Old Mother Hubbard, whose crimes would more appropriately be brought before the Anti-Cruelty Society...
...Mother Hubbard went to her shoe...
Although her own life revolved around the stage and music, Miss Sayre found time to associate with a somewhat bizarre though terribly shoe group. One of her close friends "went to Dylan Thomas' funeral in tight black silk, veiled, and jet earringed, weeping because she never met him." Another grew trees in her room. (A Harvard acquaintance built a fine rampant peacock out of tinker toys as a woman-substitute.) She and her friends "detested" normal girls who wore cardigan sweaters and could discuss sex calmly...