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...White House has many doors. Last week a lady guest, looking for a mislaid briefcase after a ceremony honoring the Teacher of the Year, opened the wrong door-and walked in on John Kennedy. Gently, the President of the U.S. ushered the intruder out of his bathroom...
First came the neorealist show. On opening night, the confused guests sat down on the armchair that was part of Jim Dine's painting called Four Rooms, and piled their champagne glasses into the porcelain sink (painted black) that is part of his lesser work, Black Bathroom No. 2. Two days later came a "lecture" by Modernist Composer John Cage, who accompanied his own voice with three tape recordings of his own voice, thus saying four different meaningless things at once. But that only led up to the climactic event, a happening called "Stars...
...Leave-Taking. Earlier that evening, Charlene had sent Marina out to the corner drugstore to get a new bottle of sleeping pills which her physician had prescribed. As the program began, Charlene rose from her bed, went to the bathroom. She returned to lie down on the bed while Marina sat near by. The youngster watched the show to the end, saw Gregory Peck, looking just like Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, make a touching little acceptance speech. When Marina looked at her stepmother, she realized that something was wrong. But it was too late. Charlene had swallowed...
...nine languages, all of them except his native German with a heavy accent. He is a hard man to work for. The story goes that when Writer Irwin Shaw was working on Waterfront, his wife awoke one morning at 3 o'clock to find her husband in the bathroom, shaving. What was he doing? "I'm going out to kill Sam Spiegel," he said...
...long-suffering art." As for Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, everyone had a field day. Julian Street's description of it as an "explosion in a shingle factory" became almost a household phrase. Teddy Roosevelt compared it unfavorably to a Navajo rug in his bathroom-which, he thought, was "a far more satisfactory and decorative picture...