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...tableau, painted in 1851 in Düsseldorf, which was in itself a pretty dubious romanticization of the past. But in 1953, with abstract expressionism firing off its salvos, Rivers might as well have glorified Benedict Arnold. Rivers was put down by the avant-garde as a reactionary, a brush-brandishing brontosaurus, or worst of all, a realist...
...might be married, with two kids, stand only 5 ft. 1 in. in his socks and wear his hair like a scrub brush. But he was obviously going places, and so Andrea Kline, a Queens teen, picked Astronaut Gus Grissom, 39, for her private hero four years ago, sent him letters and gifts and kept hoping that one day . . . Now Gus and John Young were safely down from their Gemini voyage into space, and in Manhattan for the parades and banquets. Into the Waldorf-Astoria marched Andrea, and ran right up to the dais, where she handed the startled Grissom...
Instead of giving him the brush Colgate called in the FBI, then led Mayneld on. He and a Colgate contact man agreed to meet in a specified men's room at New York City's Kennedy International Airport. There they entered adjoining cubicles and Mayfield, shrewdly calculating how to delay any possible pursuit by the Colgate man, demanded that he remove his trousers and hand them over. Mayfield then handed over the Crest plan, in return received $20,000-in marked bills. As he rushed out, he was arrested by FBI agents. If convicted, Mayfield could...
...have performed a fighting role and that it was wrong to put down Tshombe, who has since emerged as the only figure capable of giving the country even a semblance of government. But whatever was wrong with the sometimes tragic, sometimes messy operation, it still managed to keep a brush-fire war from spreading into a wider conflict. The Congo operatien ended last June, largely because of Russian and French refusal to help...
What is the point of a stagehand appearing in the middle of aria who paints the same white patch of scenery she painted in the last scene, again with a dry red brush? If the cast has to flirt with the crew, couldn't they be more convincing--and remember their infatuations in the next...