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...violently cross-grained man. His life belonged as much to the history of publicity as to the history of literature. He was a splendid writer who became his own worst creation, a hoax and a bore. He ended by being one of the most famous men in the world, white-bearded Mr. Papa. He stopped observing and started performing. He sentimentalized and pontificated and lied and bullied...
...marched to the inaugural stand with Millard Fillmore. It was Fillmore who then came back to the hotel and moved into his successor's old quarters. Once, when the water supply in the neighborhood became tainted, Henry Willard sent a couple of barrels of drinking water from his splendid well over to James Buchanan in the White House, just a stroll away...
...ambiguities of the Ring, however, are what make it so irresistible, and lately there has been something of a Ring boomlet in America. The San Francisco Opera unveiled its splendid Ring last summer; the Dallas Opera has produced all four segments in the past five years; there is a production under way at Artpark in Lewiston, N.Y. Next month the Metropolitan Opera begins its new Ring with the second opera in the cycle, Die Walkure. Yet for sheer audaciousness, none of these companies are likely to rival the Seattle Opera, which opened a new Ring last week to an invigorating...
...this year will be different. Because the Red Sox, apart from their admittedly splendid luck, are really, honestly, truly, I swear to God, the best team in their division and in their league. Do I protest...
...Revolution is always popular, in part because the British uniforms were dazzling. These were not just the well-known red coats, but kilts for Scottish outfits and suits of splendid foppishness for officers. Lord Cornwallis is not required to surrender every weekend, but when he is played by Ken Siegel, he does so in the highest style. Siegel, 42, a management consultant from Needham, Mass., wears high silk stockings, brown-top riding boots, leather-lined, white wool breeches closed with gold buttons, a white waistcoat with a gold pocket watch, a crimson sash, a general's coat in scarlet wool...