Word: brooding
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...hands that grip the gouges are as calloused as a carpenter's; the eyes that guide them brood with the sad sensitivity of a romantic poet. A chipper, Groucho Marxist mustache contradicts both hands and eyes. They all belong to Printmaker Antonio Frasconi, 44, one of the U.S.'s foremost woodcut artists. In February, more than 80 of his whorled and scratch-lined works (see opposite page) will begin a two-year long tour of U.S. museums. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, the show demonstrates Frasconi at his versatile best, running from bright, bird-wreathed seascapes to dark...
...other contributing factor was the publication of Shelton's novels, Brood of Fury and Hangman's Song, which had aroused external criticism from what the president called "our constituency...
...learned from an X ray a scant three days in advance that quints were on the way. Then when her time came, there were complications. Four of the five infants were breech deliveries; the other emerged head first. Also six-to eight-weeks premature, Mrs. Fischer's brood arrived in 90 minutes, weighed an estimated...
Only Whisker-Deep. Machismo is still the element that separates Latin American leaders from the also-rans. In pre-Castro Cuba, the army of Dictator Fulgencio Batista respected its leader almost as much for his manliness and his brood of illegitimate children as for the military daring that first brought him to power in 1933. Castro is another story. Though he has the whiskery look of virility, and was considered muy macho for invading Cuba with only 81 men, his he-man rating fell sharply after he let Khrushchev pull out his missiles, and his love life, in the opinion...
Disney's latest for the tired Junior Achievement executive is a version of Kate Douglas Wiggin's 1911 Mother Carey's Chickens, that durable story of the widow (Dorothy McGuire) and her brood who live as innocent squatters in a big, old-fashioned house in the country. Walt has flossed it up with lively songs, a glossy assortment of period gewgaws (a red Stutz Bearcat, a steam locomotive, a pianola), and Hayley Mills, who bolsters the little plot with elfin enthusiasm...