Word: bearding
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...film is best when it places the scenes that inspired Van Gogh next to sweeping CinemaScopic closeups of his paintings. Actor Kirk Douglas (whose natural red beard makes him look astonishingly like Van Gogh's self-portrait) and Anthony Quinn (splendid as the swaggering Paul Gauguin) at times manage to catch what Van Gogh called "the high yellow note" of painting intensity and the "electric arguments" about art which Van Gogh wrote left them "with our heads as exhausted as an electric battery after it is discharged." The film captures the fierce drive and bitter tragedy in the life...
...well as the wife.* Like "his" and "hers" towels in the bathroom, the notion is apt to be a little obvious and excessively cute. But if the reader can keep from getting dizzy turning the book over, he will still have fun, because behind Author "Virginia Rowans" hides the beard of Edward Everett Tanner III, who, under the pseudonym of Patrick Dennis, wrote the runaway bestseller, Auntie Mame...
...when rotund Camille Pissarro walked into Paris' Cafe de la Nouvelle Athenes with his great prophet's beard streaming and his portfolio tucked under his arms, fellow artists would greet him with a shout, "Hail to Moses!" In fact, good-natured, soft-spoken Painter Pissarro's place in art was far more that of teacher, peacemaker and counselor than lawgiver. He was ten years older than most of the impressionist greats, and this induced in him a fatherly urge to take time off from his own painting to patch up quarrels, round up shows, hold together...
...their mothers gaped from their doorways, the kids streamed into the brand-new Presbyterian church. But one stayed back long enough to explain: "They're following a little man no bigger than a boy-he's got hair all over his body and a long white beard, and claws instead of fingers." The mothers' hearts froze. For this, they knew at once, was Tikoloshe-the evil sprite who tempts South African black men to murder and worse (TIME, Feb. 20), who has the power to lure children away with tales of a marvelous play land, which leaves...
...Kountz's first patients for hormone treatment was a woman of 78. She was bearded, diabetic and grouchy; she often used her wooden leg as a club when a doctor approached her. She was put on estrogens. After three months, he recalls, "she became one of the sweetest persons in the hospital. She began to menstruate regularly, her beard went away, and she went home...