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When most men visit Van Cleef & Arpels, the jewelry salon on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, the result is likely to be an overdrawn bank account. When George Balanchine visits Van Cleef & Arpels, the result is a ballet. Jeweler Claude Arpels once suggested that Balanchine create a jewel-inspired dance, so the choreographer took a stroll past the store's gleaming showcases, and sure enough, his head filled with visions of bedecked ballerinas. Why not a trilogy, he thought, based on the motifs of emeralds, rubies and diamonds...
...Negro students in Boston's imbalanced schools is myopic. In practical terms, the plan offers them nothing. While serving as a symbol of the State Board's and the School Committee's agreement on some final aims, the latest solution is, in its specifics, mostly a bit of overdrawn wishful thinking...
Taking up the scent, other newspapers elaborated on the theme; soon, Administration sources were quoted describing Johnson as "foaming at the mouth." Disturbed by this overdrawn image, the Texas White House began issuing denials. The President's temper, said his aides, was quite cool. The stockpile meeting, announced Press Secretary Bill Moyers, was one of a series that had begun in January with industry representatives to seek a long-range plan to dispose of surplus aluminum...
...movie The Wild One was a slice-of-seedy-life picture about a pack of vicious, swaggering motorcycle hoods called the Black Rebels. The characters were too overdrawn and the violence they wrought was too unrelieved to en gage the credulity of its audience, so the film passed quickly into oblivion...
According to the conventional wisdom, control of Congress has lain for the past four years in the hands of southern reactionaries, rich with seniority, entrenched in their committees. Naturally, this picture has been overdrawn. It has not applied much to the Senate since 1958, and the manuevers of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson have made it less and less relevant to the House. Now Johnson's landslide promises to make obsolete the cliche of Southern legislative obstruction...