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...appearance to change that way as he grows older." Besides, says Conrad, "the way I draw him, he is perfectly recognizable." Conrad can make Republican Richard Nixon look ridiculous without making him a Herblock subspecies. Similarly, he can show his own favorite, Stevenson, as a hilarious Mona Lisa...
Giant headlines flashed the news all over France: it was painfully reminiscent of the sensational art robbery of 1911 when the Mona Lisa disappeared from the Louvre for nearly two years. The police sprang into action. They got word that one "Gaby" Rouze was boasting in the bistros of how he had helped pull the job. Once gabby Gaby was in the clink, other characters began landing there, too. Finally, the police arrested "Loulou le Belge," accused him of hiding the paintings for 48 hours in his apartment in Nice. But where were the paintings now? Loulou shrugged that...
...room apartment once occupied by Lenin, she threw her solid arms about French Communist leaders and bussed them resoundingly. At the middle-class department store, the Galeries Lafayette, she fell in love with a pale green at-home dress. Later she took in a bit of the Louvre-the Mona Lisa, Napoleon's crown, the Venus de Milo-along with two of her daughters, in a 40-minute sprint. Meanwhile, at a luncheon at the Diplomatic Press Association, her husband spoke again...
...history, e.g., General Potemkin's letters taught him the oils used by Catherine the Great (Siberian fir needles, hay, geranium and lilac), and Anne Marie's exercises are supposedly based on a calisthenics drill devised by Leonardo da Vinci. "It is not a lesser masterpiece than his Mona Lisa...
...that the author followed a method once used by Duchamp for writing music-he drew notes and musical markings out of a bag at random. But the volume makes up for the grab-bag text by reproducing almost every known work of Expressionist Cubist-Surrealist Duchamp, from his mustachioed Mona Lisa and famed Nude Descending a Staircase to the catalogue cover he decorated with a foam-rubber breast and the caption: "Please touch...