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Many a paunchy, jowly citizen of U.S. suburbia, when he thinks of his youth, remembers Alice Prin. For Alice, with the heavy purple rouge over the surrealist green powder, Alice, with the bright crimson cupid bow hiding her thin upper lip and the spit curl embellishing her low forehead, was the toast (to put it delicately) of Paris in the days when Expatria infested the Left Bank...
...homogeneous moral standards-the early Roman Empire and 18th-Century Europe. ... It -is aimed at inconsistency and hypocrisy. It exposes polite cruelty and folly by exaggerating them. It seeks to produce shame. All this has no place in the century of the Common Man where vice no longer pays lip service to virtue. The artist's only service to the disintegrated society of today is to create little . . . systems of order of his own. I foresee in the Dark Age opening that the scribes may play the part of the monks after the first barbarian victories. They were...
Strong Drink. In Sacramento, Frank Taylor, after carelessly gulping blazing-hot coffee, 1) choked, 2) bit his lip, 3) fell off his chair, 4) struck his head, 5) cut his ear, 6) went to a hospital...
When Göring returned to his seat in the dock, the other defendants crowded around him to shake his hand, slap his back. Shouted one: "Hermann, halt die Ohren steif!" ("Keep your ears stiff": keep a stiff upper lip). Growled a member of the Russian prosecution staff: "The pig will long be remembered for this speech...
...Whenever he has time and a doctor's permission, he watches delicate operations in Manhattan or Hollywood hospitals. For more active relaxation, he plays golf (in the low 80s) or travels with the Brooklyn Dodgers. A close friend of Leo Durocher, the Bums' manager, he was the Lip's battery mate on a U.S.O. tour to the Orient. Periodically, Kaye frets about his health-which is phenomenally good-and gulps vitamins galore or retreats to an upstate New York health farm, where he hikes ten miles before breakfast...