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...striped stockings. They lick ice cream cones but seldom smile. They are exotic exaggerations, vinyl Venuses in modern Threepenny Opera costumes, flagrant in their red fright wigs and monster cupid lips. His portrait of Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim has her decked out in butterfly sunglasses with bare breasts to boot...
...report One-Third of a Nation, at least a fifth of those rejected come from families that are on public assistance, and almost one half are sons in families with six or more children. Thus, many of the young men from the lower middle class are sent to boot camp while their contemporaries, behind the walls of the ghetto or the university, stay out. And the two groups are already regarding one another with suspicion and hostility across the barrier of experience...
...skis with more passion than poise, latched onto a group of teen-age girl racers, delighted them by setting the pace on a fast down hill run. Son Joseph, 14, was the family casualty this time: barreling down the hill, he fell, breaking his leg cleanly above the boot...
Japan was leading Iran in soccer, 2-1, with a minute to play when the Iranian goalie blocked a shot. In the process, he somehow kicked a Japanese forward. Japan was awarded a penalty boot, and the Iranian captain was banished from the field for protesting the penalty. At game's end, the president of the Iran Football Federation approached the Thai referee to continue the argument, and the referee smacked him in the snoot. At that point, as they say in the Pentagon, the battle escalated. Players and spectators leaped into the fray, and helmeted riot police waded...
...both, and an Oscar winner to boot, although there was no doubt that the award was at least partly a consolation prize from Hollywood sentimentalists who thought Julie should have got the film role in Fair Lady...