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Then the cold set in, the Jets' lead became insuperable, the drinks took their toll, and small bands of lecherous middle-aged men broke into smiles as the pompoms waved, hips swung, and carts wheeled...
...vanish overnight, De Gaulle's speech said much more about his state of mind than about his country. Le Monde sarcastically likened the De Gaulle choice to one between heaven and hell: "If it is to be paradise, for how much more time? And if the inevitable toll of time condemns us in any case to hell, what good are the extra years of grace...
...record for uninterrupted travel between major cities, however, still belongs to the New York-to-Chicago stretch. For 845 miles -through the connecting expressways and turnpikes of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois-there is nothing to make a motorist brake except fatigue, an emptying gas tank, a toll station, or a state trooper...
Such intensity takes its toll. Gottfried does not see anything blandly; he always has a reaction. "A play does physical things to me," he says. "At an excruciatingly bad play, it is actually physically painful to remain in my seat. Even when I was a kid, as soon as I saw a play, I'd write a review on the program. I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't pour all those feelings into a review...
Normally it is the auctioneer who points in ecstasy at some modest morsel of art and racks his brain for superlatives. And it is the greybeards, full of probity, in the museum pantheon who toll the bell. But roles were reversed last week when New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art bid a paltry $225 for a sculpture at a Parke-Bernet auction, then gleefully announced that its new acquisition might be worth more than...