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...defense of the seven arrested Watergate burglars. By late in the year, the defendants had been paid $460,000. Kalmbach used Ulasewicz for many of the hush-money deliveries; the two conversed from public telephone booths and used code names ("Mr. Rivers" for Ulasewicz, "the Writer" for Hunt, "the Brush" for Haldeman). Kalmbach decided to pull out of this illegal activity and did so in September...
...sagging wooden shack trimmed with Christmas tree lights. "All the water flows down here from the main road. This is Louis Welsh Street, the worst street in Bordersville." A hundred yards up the road, Louis Welsh Street intersected Martin Luther King Avenue, then disappeared into the thick Texas brush...
...tell you a story. When I was five or six or seven. I was playing with matches behind the garage. There was lots of brush there. It caught fire and burned down the back of the garage...
...told every brush with the great and the near great supposedly has its poignant moments, proving that they are just folks after all. My experience seemed notably lacking, though there was one that might qualify. While á deux with Mrs. Taylor-Burton and a beaker of champagne, she remarked that Richard often considered returning to Oxford to become a simple don. This was said with great sincerity and a straight face. Which-since the lady was at the time wearing a stupefying wig made from the scalps of at least nine healthy Italians and a frock costing upwards...
Looping and chopping its way through the repertory of shorthand for the human face and figure that he himself had developed decades before, Picasso's brush encountered no resistances. The twisting and displacement of a torso or an ear, the mock-cubist overlapping and profiling related to nothing except earlier paintings that he had made but seemed to have half forgot ten. The drama of assimilation, of that prehensile eye clawing at the world's very guts, dissolved. He ran out of subjects and fell back as never before on stock dummies - troglodytic clowns and kidney-profiled women...