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Interesting Defect. Pablo's art requires the touch of a miniaturist, the steadiness of a demolition expert. He has both, plus an assorted palette of six watercolor shades and seven sable brushes of various sizes and shapes-shaving-brush thick for blush powder, pencil-thin for under-eyeliner. Eyes are made up as much as possible: double, even triple rows of false eyelashes ("Doesn't everybody own at least three pairs?"), and the rest a subtle blending of watercolor tones: black eyeliner, then white, light brown, dark brown (in the crease of the eyelid), light brown again, ending...
...fireworks display of Timothy Mayer's Good Woman of Setzuan isn't quite the conflagration we'd been banking on. Some of the powder is damp, and some poorly packed. But when everything goes off on time, as it fortunately does in most of the play's crucial scenes, the pyrotechnics are well worth watching...
...floor for almost two hours. A woman next door was awakened and on the verge of calling police when the scraping stopped. That afternoon, as Sylvia lay moaning and mumbling incoherently on her pile of rags, Mrs. Baniszewski, Ricky, John B. Jr. and Paula sprinkled a box of soap powder on her, then added hot water. Afterward, John Jr. sprayed her with cold water from a garden hose...
Lost in the Powder Room. It also be came quickly apparent during the melee after dinner that nobody was in charge of Jackie. The Albas occupied themselves with other guests; Princess Grace disappeared in the powder room; Rainier drifted outside to have a smoke with the Duke of Medinaceli. It was Ambassador Duke who finally took Jackie by the arm and steered her through the throng of 2,500 guests toward one of the antechambers set aside for late-night flamenco. It was so packed that they never did get in. At 2:45 a.m., Ambassador Duke drove her home...
What did it prove? Nothing, aside from the fact that Clay can take it as well as dish it out. Some critics sneered that he was a powder-puff puncher; others insisted that Cassius deliberately had "carried" Chuvalo, could have knocked him out any time he wanted. Clay replied by exhibiting a pair of swollen hands that looked almost as bad as Chuvalo's face: "George's head," he moaned, "is the hardest thing I've ever punched...