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...anyone managed to surmount these natural obstacles, there would be little enough to spy on. Mum might be cooking up a batch of her special pea soup (secret ingredient: sea salt), Dad might be settled back with some favorite reading material-science-fiction novels and comics, mostly. The whole family could be gathered around the table, enjoying a favorite meal of eggs and chips and larking about, hitting Dad for "requests"-everything from That Doggy in the Window to songs composed on the spot, to order, for whatever child does the asking. Dad may be working on the score...
...Manhattan lair two months ago, found his model an "excellent" subject. "He has an incredible childlike quality," observed Jamie. "He was very concerned that I would use too much red in his skin, or show up a pimple." Warhol, who refuses to hang separately, has already snapped off a batch of Polaroid pictures of Wyeth. The patriarch of pop plans to have his counterpart framed in time for a gallery showing this June...
...immediate precipitating factor, Holcombe says, was that he began preparing a batch of cauliflower at a time that Montville thought was too early in the afternoon...
Even without the weekly batch of transients, the Russian presence in Luxembourg is about as subtle as an elephant at a garden party. Ambassador Yevgeni Kosarev, a dour commissar-type who bores his fellow diplomats at cocktail parties by talking endlessly about grain crops, supervises an embassy of 36 Soviet officials-roughly one for every 10,000 Luxembourgers...
...well as his agility in keeping his outside pursuits from interfering with his official duties-was shown one summer afternoon when the two were interrupted by a knock on the Lincoln Bedroom door. Angered, Kennedy threw the door wide open. There stood two top foreign affairs advisers with a batch of secret cables-and a clear view of the woman in bed. Never bothering to close the door, Kennedy cooled down, read the dispatches, and made his decisions before he returned to his friend...