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...addition to their holographic evidence, McGraw-Hill and LIFE also base their case for authenticity on the internal character of their manuscript, which is offhand, conversational, outspoken, frequently salty. It deals intricately and at considerable length with airplane design and performance. There are glints of characteristic Hughes wit. He scoffed at Richard Nixon's Checkers speech, for example: "I always thought he must have had an onion hidden in his handkerchief." Such details would have been extremely difficult for Irving to fake. Indeed, the Hughes camp seemed ready to base its case less on the authenticity of the book than...
...first woman to inherit the Danish throne since the 15th century, Queen Margrethe attended the universities of Copenhagen and Aarhus, the London School of Economics, Cambridge and the Sorbonne. She has a sly, self-deprecating wit. Her comment on miniskirts: "The miniskirt is not impossible, but my legs are." Pretty and occasionally moody, she sometimes exercises the royal prerogative of being stuffy when she feels like it. That will probably ensure that she will never again be called, at least by Danes, by her teen-age nickname: Daisy...
...seem way-stations on the road to irrelevance. But in Sheed's practice, his Catholic temperament and catholicity of taste lead to a greater freedom for play with the unworthy than that of other critics. Since his playfulness is tempered by good judgement, he manages to bring genuine wit to an often gassy craft...
...editors and readers are lucky, they may get a durable broadax wit like Art Buchwald. If they are very lucky, they find someone like Russell Baker, writer of the New York Times's "Observer" column. At his best, Baker fills his allotted space opposite the editorial page with bizarre, often bleak fantasies about human foolishness. At his second best, he holds a funhouse mirror up to the nature of the consumer state. Baker's "growing family," for example, does not increase numerically but expands through overweight and the excess tonnage of possessions...
...India, Africa and China along with conventional Western music, combining art and technology in its electronic music labs. Labs like these in the East are progressing in the same direction it is true, but C.I.A. has managed to hook up synthesizers with laser beams and visual generators with a wit and sophistication worthy of Audio-animaltronics. Indeed many of the courses have the playfulness of a Disneyland attraction not to mention the awesomeness. The art school for example, offers the House Of Dust course. The class works with a House Of Dust sculpture, which is made from five tons...