Word: across
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...role as one of Britain's most influential style setters, Princess Margaret set stylish maids and matrons agog by a radical change of hairdo. Almost flapperish, the new do features tight rolls by the ears, an arcing lock of hair across the forehead. Making one of her first public appearances in her changed coiffure, Margaret, 29, went stomping at London's Savoy Hotel with Bachelor Farmer Alan Godsal, 33, who carries the title of High Sheriff of Berkshire. After losing an open-toe slipper on the dance floor, Margaret smiled impishly while Godsal, crimson with embarrassment, retrieved...
...more (Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte, Dick York). The colonel then puts Cooper and his heroes in charge of a U.S. citizen (Rita Hayworth) accused of giving aid and comfort (of a suggestively unspecified nature) to the enemy, and orders them north to Cordura, three days' ride across a waterless waste. On the way Cooper tells the men that they will be nominated for the Medal of Honor, and asks them, for personal reasons as well as for Army records, what made them do the heroic things they...
...give in. His heroes embody for him the esoteric principle, the precious bane that alone can heal his life and save his soul: courage. "They have it. I have to save it." He disarms the lot of them, and sleepless, burning-eyed, with the energy of obsession drives them across the desert, drives them without horses, without food, without water toward a little Spanish town whose name means sanity. And as the cruel days go by, the heroes come to see that the coward is the greater hero, the more deeply courageous man. What they have is physical courage...
Star readers are used to such fast and timely color with their news. The paper prints news or news-related color pictures five times a week, recently spread a four-color picture of an American Legion parade across Page One just 5 hours and 19 minutes after the photograph was taken-and while the parade was still going...
...exclaimed one painter, staring up at the great dome. "You would need a piece of sculpture the size of the old Athena in the Parthenon for this place," worried Sculptor William Zorach. "Even when he made a mistake, he made a big one," opined Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz. But, looking across the well at the opening show of 134 paintings and sculptures selected from the 2,500-odd works in the Guggenheim collection, most were forced to concede that the great curved ramps provided the most dramatic setting abstract art has ever...