Word: browed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Name or Talent? To San Franciscans in their huge granite Opera House, as to most audiences, Rubinstein is a small, lumpy figure with a classic brow and a frizzy Harpo Marx-like mop, spotlighted on a distant stage. The impenetrable dignity Pianist Rubinstein manages to assume on stage conceals a talent for mimicry, a love of partying, and a quick-tongued...
Crimson efforts to remove Big Three debate laurels from the Bulldog's brow will reach a climax tonight in the tradition-clad, ivy-ladeh Harvard-Yale-Princeton triangular debate...
...genuine make-believe. Outstanding episodes: The Pool of Tears, the Trial Scene, and Tweedledum & Tweedledee (whose joint recital of The Walrus and the Carpenter is neatly acted out with marionettes). As Alice, Bambi Linn (Oklahoma!, Carousel) has a true childlike charm, a Tenniel look, and a big-eyed, brow-furrowed wonderment...
Unlike the average Victorian hero, Author Collins did not let an angry flush mantle his high brow, and rush off to thrash the cad with a riding crop. Like a sensible novelist, he gently escorted the lady to his house in Harley Street (where she was to live as his mistress for many years) and made haste to turn their fortunate meeting into Chapter I of his next novel, The Woman in White. This novel, and its thrilling successor, The Moonstone, made Wilkie Collins one of Victorian England's richest and most popular writers...
...reserve nor her mother's dazzling charm. Last week, as she stood unobtrusively at her father's elbow, she frequently seemed plain bored. But those who looked sharp could catch an occasional rare smile, lighting her face like a searchlight, or see her knit her brow in sober perplexity over some paradox of Empire in an official's talk...