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...good story bears retelling, and the one about the family Kennedy is among the best. It has the elements and sweep of 19th century literature: great expectations, war and peace and, in recent years, the whiff of a cherry orchard. In their 1984 book The Kennedys, Peter Collier and David Horowitz describe a Thanksgiving at Hyannis that had taken place two years before. After dinner, Rose, then 93, gathered her strength to address the remnants of her tribe. "I want you all to remember," said the frail matriarch, "that you are not just Kennedys, you are Fitzgeralds...
...their handling of such previous Met expansions as the American Wing and the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. The detailing is exact, the procession of spaces through the 22 new galleries finely modulated and keyed to the contents; where large sculpture needs lots of light and air (plus a whiff of drama), it gets them from a high greenhouse gallery; and where the smaller size of early modernist painting wants a more aedicular and comfortable sense of scale, it gets that...
...grown visitor to touch its spats. Nearby sits the Chrysler Airflow -- not, alas, the classic 1934 model with the "waterfall" radiator, but still modernity on wheels, squinty windshield, fairings and all. Between them are such icons as the 1936 Sears-Roebuck Waterwitch outboard, offering its owner some whiff of the thrill associated with Henry Dreyfuss's bullet-nosed locomotives or Norman Bel Geddes' flying wings. Your trousers shorten as you look...
Didn't the Furmark episode contradict Meese's assertion that Casey had been ignorant of the fund diversion? Not really, Casey later told newsmen. Furmark's story gave him only a "whiff" that money had been diverted and caused him to start "asking some questions." But he had not been sure of the diversion to the contras, he insisted, until Meese made his announcement...
There was a plastic bat and a plastic ball, a thick slate plate, and a chalk batters box. At Jon's house, we used to play hard ball--until Jon fouled one back through his kitchen window. Then we had to play whiff there...