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Dylan sets "Johanna"'s scene with this richly connotative sketch, a vignette in line with such earlier triumphs of concretion as "Love Minus Zero," (Opus...
...bridesmaids' dresses-with the warning that anyone who jumped the release date would be banned from the wedding: "A large guillotine will be erected on the South Lawn for minor offenders." First head to roll was that of Women's Wear Daily, which printed a complete sketch of one of the dresses on its front page three days before release date. An irate Liz immediately bumped the publication from the wedding list...
...cadets take a unit on the basic tactics of guerrilla warfare. Their June final has included questions like, "You are an infantry captain directed to command a combat patrol consisting of three rifle squads and two mortars. Your mission is to attack and seize the hamlet in the following sketch. State your plans." The sketch which follows contains areas marked "jungle," and a body of water labelled "Dukong river." The hamlet depicted in the sketch is protected by fortification marked "moat--sharpened stakes. Also included are miscellaneous data on the number of rifles and mortars which the enemy...
...decadent and dainty, the epitome of the late-Victorian dandyism that prized artificiality over nature. It is a pity that he never used mauve ink. Oscar Wilde once paid him the compliment of calling him "a monstrous orchid," and Beardsley, relishing his role, jotted on the back of one sketch proof...
...federal, state, and local relief programs with unintelligible letter codes--Operation Head Start, ABCD, or the BRA. He also talks about things that aren't changing so fast as one would like them to--crime and violence on the streets, unemployment, bad housing, discouraged people. Then into this quick sketch of the condition of Roxbury, Miller fits his own venture, the Banner...