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...Castillo's ensemble in fur-a bulky opossum jacket with a Davey Crockett Hat and an umbrella case in matching fur. We never used to know what to do with an umbrella case once it was peeled from the umbrella. Now we know-it can play 'possum...
...Epstein for another in his series of memorable characterizations. Here he is the rag-picker, who claims the world is no longer happy because it has been taken over by a thousand kinds of pimp. He looks marvelously seedy, with three hats on his head at once and an umbrella that has lost almost all but its ribs; and he is most compelling in his big scene in the second...
...Mame days he kept busy patching up other people's novels, ghostwriting and being promotion manager for Foreign Affairs. Seen on a midtown Manhattan street, tall, lean, blue-eyed Tanner decked in a midnight-blue Homburg, with umbrella tightly furled, could still pass for a refugee from the British Foreign Office. Though Pat's grey-flecked brown beard predates Commander "Schweppes" Whitehead's ambassadorship (Tanner grew his during a wartime stint as ambulance driver with the American Field Service attached to the French army), he and the commander have done some mutual theorizing in and on their...
...hunter in Southeast Asia, would be delighted to let confusion reign indefinitely in both Luang Prabang and Vientiane. If things get too badly snarled up, he might be willing to take over the premiership himself. And after that, who knows? He might even bag his uncle's white umbrella...
Laugh at the Laugh. When West first started to bat about with his phosgene-filled clown's bladder, he was an expatriate boulevardier in Paris, sporting umbrella and plaid overcoat among the beards and corduroy of the lost generation. The Dream Life of Balso Snell seems on the surface like one of those near-sophomoric, painfully private japes played for the semiprivate public of a little magazine. It concerns the dream adventures of Balso Snell, a poet, who enters a Trojan Horse from the rear end ("Anus Mirabilis!"), and encounters a number of symbolic characters in the murky interior...