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...Cronkite's close friend; he had once written away for an autographed photo of the newsman. Kenneth Mueller, the mayor of Harlan (pop. 5,300), arranged to meet Adam Clymer, a national political reporter for the New York Times. Clymer showed up wearing enough plastic and paper ID cards, press passes and Secret Service credentials around his neck to gain entry to the Oval Office. Says the mayor wryly: "He looked so important, I felt I should get down on my knees and kiss his feet...
...stuffed with this kind of rant and salted with fulminations against the demons of the "corrupt" art world that make the Ayatullah's views on the Shah seem, by comparison, mere tickling. Nevertheless, Still's notes on the history of abstract expressionism, which sharply contradict some idées reçues of the official version, are largely borne out by the evidence of his paintings. We see, for instance, how Barnett Newman's much praised early work, with its vertical "zip" down the canvas, was no more than a derivative rehearsal of certain canvases of Still...
...keeping sore elbows and ankles in check. No pulled groins on this ball club, no pulled ripcords. While Zimmer insists that he is doing nothing differently this year, everyone knows it's just ego. Behind Zimmer's ego is not an ounce of superego, just a whole bunce of id. Id like the Red Sox dugout exploding onto the field after they win the 1979 American League East title; id like the Boston Globe printing a photograph of his dough-and-steel visage on their front page above a smiling Yaz: "We killed 'em," the headline quotes Zimmer; id like...
...closest friend for years, convinced Freud that all human beings were bisexual, and also offered ideas on the latency period (low sexuality preceding puberty), reaction formation (a defensive attraction to desires that are opposite of one's deeper, dangerous wishes) and something very close to the Freudian id. But, says Sulloway, Freud's disciples later dismissed Fliess as a crackpot, partly to make Freud appear as the originator of these concepts...
When food is not substantial enough, and you want drink, beware of those who check ID's. Gov. Edward J. King has spoken; you have to be 20 years old to imbibe. But with false credentials or a mature visage, you may have your pick of the bars and patrons...