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...spent virtually every night, all night, at his desk. He habitually sketches and paints in a dark room under a single spotlight, listening to recordings of Beethoven and Schubert. Since 1935 he has lived in an apartment in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, with a succession of cats as companions. "Being alone is vitally important for me and my work. I'm like a cat, solitary, independent and quiet by nature," he says. To keep in shape he works regularly with weights, even carrying a light set in his briefcase. Says he: "It's almost a duty...
Back on earth, the shelves are mercifully free of cat books, but Watergate has not yet lost weight. The sordid tale continues in John Dean's second book Lost Honor, for Watergate buffs who haven't yet Lost Interest. From his New Jersey hideaway, Richard Nixon continues to roop royalties with Leaders, a collection of his recollections about such world himinaries as Churchill. De Gaulle, Khrushchev and Chou En-Lai. Other Presidential publications are Jimmy Carter's memoirs, Keeping Faith, and Nancy Reagan's To Love a Child, accounts of the First Lady's own official baby--the Foster Grandparent...
...Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958): Pretty good film. I'm still aware of how hard I was working...
ONLY THE RED BULL and a few other downright evil characters show glimpses of animated genius. Every detail of the red-pink bull steams with uncontrollable evil--especially the transparency of its imposing body. Two peripheral characters--Captain Cully the peg-legged pirate cat and a pile of bones forming a distorted skeleton--momentarily memorize the audience, as doss the terrifying flying beast Harpy, the evil counterpart of the unicorn. Otherwise, a dearth of fluid detail hampers the illusion...
Many Democrats are equally loath to limit benefit increases. They are under pressure from the elderly, who have an exaggerated fear that if their pension checks do not keep pace with inflation they will be reduced to eating cat food. Members of the Gray Panthers, who demonstrated outside the meeting, chanted, "No ifs, no ands, no buts, no cost-of-living cuts." In fact, there is evidence that putting a cap on benefits would be justified. Tying Social Security payments to inflation amounts to a huge transfer of wealth from the young, whose earnings are not similarly protected...