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...other principal target is a huge, walk-through tableau titled Roxy's, a 1961 re-creation of a 1943 wartime brothel in Las Vegas. One of the girls, Five Dollar Billie, is a mannequin with a virtuous face but a ravaged body (symbolized by a stuffed squirrel climbing out of her breast) lying on a sewing-machine table. Like a pathetic machine, she Yo-Yos pelvically if a spectator peddles the foot treadle. Adding a sardonic note is a call-to-arms portrait of General MacArthur and a sergeant's jacket, bedecked with a good-conduct medal...
...Tame Squirrels. Actually, Faulkner was at his best when he was informal. He wrote letters to the editor of the Oxford (Miss.) Eagle on such matters as a campaign to legalize the sale of beer ("Yours for a freer Oxford, where publicans can be law-abiding publicans six days a week"), he reported that a hit-run driver had killed his bird dog ("His name was Pete. He was just a dog, a 15-month-old pointer"), and he took an ad to thank the mayor for removing a sign that had been posted near his gate. In a tartly...
...nearly every VIP in Washington came to Frank's house to sample a potpourri from his favorite huntin' and fishin' spots. There was salmon from Quebec, pheasant from the Dakotas, antelope from Wyoming, elk from Montana, bear from Georgia-not to mention coon, possum, squirrel and deer from his own 100,000-acre preserve in Alabama...
...local residents-mostly the pappies' wives and small children-harvested potatoes behind a mule-drawn plow on Will Handshoe's land beside Upper Quicksand Creek. Will, 72, who is distant kin to Floyd and unchallenged patriarch of the valley, had foresightedly taken the day off to go squirrel hunting...
...years before the Revolution, Sir Joshua Reynolds had seen Copley's Boy with Squirrel in London, had it hung at the Society of Artists without knowing the painter's correct name. Copley's contemporary, Pennsylvania-born Benjamin West, living in London since 1763, urged him to visit Europe's art treasures and learn to eliminate his too "liny" look. Not until the eve of the Revolution did Copley, accused of being a Tory sympathizer, dare risk ocean passage. He left behind him three houses and 20 acres on Beacon Hill. Copley never returned to America...