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King Edward VII refused to dine at friends' houses unless Rosa was there to cook the bland, boiled food that, in her words, "would not spill down is shirt front." Edward was an ardent patron of the hotel, which had a private entrance around the corner for merry monarchs and squires on the spree; as Prince of Wales he reputedly bankrolled his blonde, blue-eyed friend when she bought the Cavendish in 1902. "One king leads to another," she used to say. Soon the Kaiser became one of her best customers, and grew so fond of her cuisine that...
...soon the nearest military post could be alerted, learned that because Luong Son lacks a radio transmitter, it takes four hours to summon aid by runners. Said he curtly: "Let's get radios in this area." At the resort town of Dalat, McNamara changed to black tie to dine with South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem...
...Much of this has the makings of dreadful humor. In The Brother, O'Brien has turned loose a memorably monstrous archetypal entrepreneur who, if he could turn a pennyworth of profit, would not only seethe a kid in its mother's milk but invite the dam to dine on it. What in the end spoils the fun is that O'Brien does not keep the goings on entirely in the cartoon world of outrageous literary parody and exaggeration where death, as Brendan Behan puts it, has lost its "sting-aling-aling." Grimy realism crops up occasionally...
After that, Dine went through a purgative period: he did canvases that were all black or white except for some arbitrary mark or tiny design. "It was a renunciation," he says, "to get clean." Finally, he was ready for his present phase. One painting in his current show is called Red Suspenders. It consists of a pair of red suspenders that have been painted over with red paint and fixed against a red background. Says Artist Dine: "I like painting red and red." The suspenders are not "found objects." They were bought new for the painting, like a fresh tube...
...Necktie Is a Poem. The neckties-some of them are made of paint, while others are real ties painted over-are for Dine "remembered symbols that are important because they keep coming back. I used to write poems in the shape of neckties." All the paintings, whether of a shoe or hat or necktie, are labeled shoe or hat or necktie, because Dine likes to repeat his theme "over and over in your head like a textbook...