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...pure sleight of hand, then, when the slick, funky, jazz in the background reminds us that this boy knows the sore; he has lived with the blues. Miss Clarke throws in an ineffectual white schoolteacher to thump the point home. She used the same heavy-handed stroke of irony with the paunchy filmmaker in The Connection...
...sincerest compliments Pablo Picasso, 83, could pay a friend in the old days was, "he always knew how to touch the sore spot." Not that Pablo was thin-skinned, understand. "People always tell untrue stories about me-let them," he said. He did, until Françise Gilot, 43, his mistress from 1944 to 1954, mother of two of his children, and author of Life with Picasso, told how he kept a goat in the house, blew his stack because she borrowed a pair of his trousers when she outgrew her own clothes during pregnancy, and boasted that "no woman...
Ralph Bunche, Undersecretary of the United Nations, said his legs were very sore from walking. But he told the gathering, "nothing I have been associated with in my entire life gives me more satisfaction than this movement...
...ambassador, who wanted more security for American citizens in Lancelot, insisted that the military negotiate with landowners for the use of any appropriated property, complained that a Marine vehicle had run over a native and that no doctor had been summoned. To top it off, the ambassador was sore as blazes because some petroleum facilities owned by an American who happened to be a personal friend of the President of the U.S. had been sabotaged by marauding guerrillas...
...then there's Walt Hewlett. A sore foot and a bad cold kept Walt out of almost half the Crimson's winter competition, but apparently he's ready to go today. Last year, as the solid favorite, he ran with a slight cold and plodded around the Cornell gymnasium like a man on a treadmill. Almost lapped by a runner he had beaten easily the week before, he looked miserable...