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...pretty good about letting us use his back yard for a gridiron--except for the pumpkins. He was always worried about his pumpkin patch, or rather, that we had a nasty habit of running through it on long fly patterns...
...BRIAR PATCH...
Murray Kempton is sometimes bril liant in his perceptions of the angry prides and prejudices and the different worlds that met in Justice John Murtagh's New York City courtroom. But The Briar Patch is weirdly overwritten. Kempton's high prose style often so veneers the drama that even the simple facts of the case become difficult to follow. The language sometimes seems a travesty of James or Gibbon undertaking to describe Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Kempton simultaneously affects engagement and disdainful detachment, and the result occasionally leaves him drifting over the events in a kind of rhetorical...
Three Eyes. A curiosity of this process, kept on view in the laboratories as a sort of talisman, is an 18th century Madonna which, on patch cleaning, turned out to have a 17th century version under it. When that in turn was tested, the restorers found a 13th century Madonna by the so-called "Master of the Magdalens" beneath. The final palimpsest, a Virgin with three eyes, two noses and a pair of bambini (see opposite, lower right), was playfully christened "Picasso's Madonna...
FIRST ONE patch of stubble was seen, then another and yet another until the President had developed an awful case of the nubs. Some of the exposed bristles are much more ghastly than that patch of black known as the Watergate affair...