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...image of St. Ivo, the National Gallery's painting is of unparalleled historical interest: it would be the first portrait in the history of Western art with a landscape in the background. Moreover, says Christie's, "it is the first portrait in European history to depict the sitter engaged in a normal everyday activity -in this case, reading a missive." The painted lettering is illegible and thus gives no clue to the man's identity, but the scar is identical to that shown on other known portraits of Philip...
...idea seemed simple enough. Raise Broadway curtains at 7:30 p.m. instead of 8:30, and all those suburbanites and would-be theatergoers from New York's outlying boroughs could stop worrying about missing the last train and getting the baby sitter home. Still, it took the League of New York Theaters years to get the unions and the producers of all the shows on Broadway to agree...
...Thus when he noticed some suspicious weed around the house, he called the local sheriff's office. Finding 31 partially smoked joints and more marijuana stashed in plastic bags, the police arrested William's father. In Springfield, Mass., last week, Donald Sasen, 10, turned in his baby sitter and three other teen-agers for smoking grass in the house...
Does it desecrate the American flag to sit on it? Not, presumably, when the sitter is Raquel Welch. Haled into a Philadelphia court for having a picnic on a flag, five young men defended themselves with a photo of Raquel's noteworthy anatomy cradled in the stars and snuggled in the stripes. Municipal Judge Robert A. Latrone was impressed. "Do we condone that and prosecute these defendants?" he asked. "When she cloaks herself in the flag, is she glamorizing the flag or desecrating it?" Case dismissed...
...while reading instructions for my self-cleaning oven; on Friday I read Dr. Spock's treatise on dissent in the morning, then checked his Infant and Child Care in the afternoon regarding the baby's rash; on Saturday night I discussed Soul on Ice with my baby sitter before going to a party where the only pot was the one my husband is developing...