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...mantic possession, but gradually clarify to explicit prophecy, yet all opaque to the listeners ... The Queen reappears to order her indoors. Cassandra stands still, rapt and benumbed, in her chariot where she has been left when the King, quiting his, has walked into his palace on that fatal Purple Carpet, very symbol of mortals trampling on that which belongs to the gods only. "I can't stand here wrangling with a slave," says Klytemnestra, and goes back into the palace where she has more urgent work in hand...
...first appearances as Vogue's top editor, made up for it all by making more noise. Leaning slightly to one side or the other-the staff sits just a touch to the rear of the Queen-and dispensing cigarette ashes as if she were favoring the carpet, she shared her various comments ("Perfectly DREADFUL, my dear, don't you think?" "Perfectly GLORIOUS! my dear, don't you think?") with the room at large and even, some thought, with the outlying suburbs of Paris...
...managed to get some of its banana ships unloaded under court order. Even so, bananas began to run short in neighborhood markets, and housewives who succeeded in finding some paid 23? a lb. v. the pre-strike 17?. Crude rubber prices shot up as much as 10%, and Eastern carpet factories, cut off from the jute they need for carpet backing, talked of shutting down...
...artist, all his exploits have tremendous artistry. He paints a hideous mural of the raising of Lazurus in the flat of a vacationing patron, and finishes just in time to cover a large hole in the floor, his work, too, with several yards of Persian carpet before the millionaire returns from Jamaica, In a Marx Brothers movie the patron would (naturally) fall through the hole; in the world of Gully Jimson, the man, his wife, and his secretary stumble onto the rug and sink, majustically and inevitably, towards the floor beneath...
...plants have been removed and replaced with other flora; the idea is to keep the area in bloom all year round. The South Lawn, once a classic mixture of crab grass, Kentucky bluegrass and good old American weeds, has been plowed up and resodded with as deep a green carpet of bluegrass as ever a presidential helicopter dripped oil upon...