Word: born
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...born blacksmith is the famous Desert Hawk." Yvonne De Carlo to Richard Greene in The Desert Hawk...
...vermouths and robust red wines from the Nazis in Robert Crichton's best-selling 1966 novel, The Secret of Santa Vittoria. Indeed a difficult part for an actor, calling for a subtle combination of gentle foolishness and hardheaded Italian moxie. So naturally Producer Stanley Kramer picked an Irishman, born in Mexico, who hails from Hollywood: Anthony Quinn, 52, who has been studiously preparing for his role as the rascally wine merchant by tippling Cinzano at his villa south of Rome and working it off with a fast set or two of tennis...
...Born. To Muhammad Ali (alias Cassius Clay), 26, ex-heavyweight champ, now appealing his conviction for draft-dodging, and Belinda Boyd Ali, 18: a girl, their first child; in Chicago...
...Latvian-born Sven Lukin, 34, also distorts perspective to reflect the pressures of Manhattan life. Of his grey and pink Squeeze, he explains: "Think of tender flesh squeezed under an environment that is all speed, cement and cars. Grey is an urban color." Squeeze seems to loom above the viewer far larger than its actual eight feet because its vanishing point is situated a foot or so below the painting, in what is known as "worm's-eye perspective." Traditionally, perspective was used to make a painting seem to open a window into the wall; Lukin uses the technique...
...female main character. Brian Moore does not pull off his wig and bow, nor is there any impulse to applaud. Applause, of course, would mean that the deception had failed. It is, in fact, successful, and Moore earns, with great cleverness, a distinction that many writers are born with-that of being judged as a lady novelist...