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...rich King Khalid of Saudi Arabia could doubtless afford a solid-gold Cadillac. Modestly, he ordered instead the longest Cadillac ever built. The Khalidillac, designed by Detroit's articulate extravert Dollie Cole in collaboration with Husband Ed, the former president of General Motors, is a somber navy-blue behemoth that is 25 ft. 2 in. long. The extra length was achieved by splicing in an additional 4 ft. amidships. The Caddy, with no bulletproofing, weighs 7,800 lbs. (v. the standard 5,889), requires supersuspension and stronger tires. Its air conditioning demands added insulation to overcome desert heat. Price...
...publication of this material would doubtless have pained Joyce deeply. Despite his reputation as a writer of dirty books, he was remarkably prim in his speech and other correspondence. "Keep my letters to yourself, dear," he admonished Nora. "They were written for you." Yet because everything Joyce experienced found its way some how into his fiction, the exposure of his raw sexual fantasies is not the simple invasion of privacy it might seem. Joyce's life was a tug of war between schizoid contradictions. He fled Dublin but never wrote about anything else. He renounced Catholicism, then cast himself...
There was a demonic as well as an Arcadian side to European images of the Americas. In the mid-16th century another Portuguese artist, doubtless inspired by reports of Caribbean cannibalism, painted an Inferno whose Satan wears a feather crown. But in general it was the noble Indian who would predominate. He became decorative in the late 17th century and positively rococo in the 18th, peering from cartouches, dallying under formalized palms. The ideas of Rousseau transmuted him into a red-skinned Cato or Brutus garbed in instinctive rectitude. And as he began to perish along the white frontier...
...There's doubtless a few people who just never bother to ask the Committee when they should," says Hastie. "It's quite possible that there are stressful experiments going on that the the committee simply hasn't heard about...
...speak up at all pretrial hearings, so long as the two co-counsel do not speak up at once. To prepare her case, Squeaky has been virtually exempted from jailhouse routine. She is also entitled to have access to law books. Squeaky's studies have doubtless turned up a further advantage to acting as her own lawyer: she can decline to testify, then as counsel sum up her case without having to subject herself to crossexamination...