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...never led at any mark in any race, and the most embarrassing moment of all for the Aussies occurred in the third race when, midway through the opening, windward leg, a 12-ft. Beetle Cat boat piloted by two youths capsized directly in the path of the onrushing Intrepid. Mosbacher had to veer off sharply; in the process, Intrepid caught a blast of air from a Coast Guard rescue helicopter that wrapped her mainsail around the backstay, cost her more than 30 sec. of racing time. She still beat Dame Pattie to the first mark...
...looks like just another of Pop Artist Andy Warhol's home movies. Still, Andy's home is unlike anybody else's, and so are his films. This one follows a cat named Tom (Tom Baker) as he prowls bedrooms and hallways in search of birds. There are six in all, including Ingrid Superstar-real name: Ingrid von Schoffen-as a chubby blonde who refers to her overexposed mammaries as "fried eggs," and a brassy type in a pea jacket who turns Tom down because she herself prefers to make it with chicks. Some of the improvised dialogue...
...call this book Anti-Memoirs be cause it answers questions that memoirs do not pose and does not answer those they do pose, and also because one finds in it, often linked to tragedy, an irrefutable and gliding presence, like a cat passing in the darkness - that of an eccentric whose name I have un knowingly revived...
...containing well-preserved collagen. Chemically analyzing the collagen in fossil specimens recovered from Los Angeles' famed La Brea tar pits, he applied his formula and calculated the temperatures of such extinct species as the browsing ground sloth, the dire wolf, the short-faced bear and the saber-toothed cat...
...Gaudens added a flowing cloak of copper sheets, so she could act as a wind vane as well, and up she went on the Garden tower, to twirl on a swivel before the prevailing breeze. New York fell in love at first sight. She became the protectress of the cat show, the horse show, the sportsmen's show, the prizefights and circuses. Around 1905, a severe storm ripped away her cloak; from then on she was bolted securely down. She presided over William Jennings Bryan's nomination for President, saw Jack Dempsey knock out Bill Brennan...