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...turned his head in every direction for the crowds like a campaigning Kennedy. Perched on the back seat of the President's bubble-top Lincoln, he ignored the dismal drizzle, kept a protective left arm around his radiant wife Annie, and occasionally thrust out his other arm to shake the hand of daring youngsters who darted through the police lines to his side. Teenagers seemed especially fervent in their hero worship, and the girls punctuated his progress with squeals of "Go, John, go!" and "Dig that...
...fell under the spell of Cezanne, later said that it took him all of three years to shake it. Some of his early canvases look vaguely like the work of Braque or Gris, but Léger was never to be a cubist. What interested him was not dissection but construction; while the cubists shattered the surface of reality and the surrealists explored the world of dreams, Léger clung to the familiar objects and figures all about him, using them like brightly colored blocks to build his compositions...
...Mustashio Toro held her and her fellow hostages for $30 million ransom. But one of Daddy's aides hanged the General and herded Annie and company through a secret passageway to the Warbucks yacht. There, Daddy declaimed the moral: "I recall Teddy Roosevelt's advice! 'Never shake your fist and then shake your finger! That is the sort of Americanism I think an awful lot of us admire...
...wife rounded a bend to see an empty pony cart and, a few yards away, Victoria and John Brown. Brown, pinning a plaid round the Queen's shoulders, apparently scratched her; she squealed and protested. "Brown offered no apology. He gave the Queen a kind of shake, clutched her more tightly and snapped: 'Hoots, then, wumman-can ye no hould yere heid...
...Paris and headed down the icy highway by car for the quiet Black Forest spa of Baden-Baden. Military helicopters whirred overhead, and heavily armed police patrolled the streets. At last De Gaulle's Citroen limousine drew up to Brenner's Park Hotel. Out he stepped to shake hands with the smiling friend who awaited him, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer...