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Grumbling Locals. Boyle is a little man, pale and bald, quirky and tempestuous, often riven with anger. He has a habit of jerking his head around to look over his right shoulder. Born in a coal camp near Bald Butte, Mont., he came from a mining family, and recalls how his miner father, an Irish immigrant, "died in my arms" of consumption. Boyle inevitably went into the mines himself and, with his fiery temper, became a strong union man, eventually a top official of the Mine Workers in the West. But when U.M.W. President John L. Lewis summoned...
...middle - physically enclosed by the lip of white relief around it - would, in a different way, become another motif. Kelly's mature painting is very much a matter of cut and constriction. Shape burgeons across the canvas, brushing against its edges in such a way that within the bald format there is no dead space. Kelly's paintings are pervaded by a subtly indicated force, a sense of form working under confinement at several points above normal pressure. That Kelly is a most able draftsman can easily be seen from his pencil drawings of leaves and fruit...
This year, however, the script may have to be completely revised to accommodate a new, largely unknown cast of characters. Graduation, college athletics' great equalizer, has always thinned the ranks. This year, unlike past years, the thin spots may actually become completely bald...
...Christina Olson, Karl Kuerner or Ralph Cline, the veteran patriot with a skull like a parchment-covered round shot-have become nearly as familiar as Charlie Brown or Donald Duck. They are seen as icons of survival and indomitability, and their clipped-tongue rectitude evokes the silence of the bald eagle...
...highlands and an insurance manager from one of London's blue-blood suburbs. Their leader is an engaging aristocrat, Jeremy Thorpe, 44, an amateur violinist and accomplished mimic whose ancestors were serving in Parliament in the 14th century. Now the band has been joined by David Austick, a bald lay preacher and bookseller, and Clement Freud, an antic journalist and television personality who, besides being Sigmund's grandson, is best known to the British electorate for his baleful appearances with a blood hound named Henry in a commercial for dog food...