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...brow darkened. "Mister, we may be foreign students, midwestern plains boys, and Bronx yoyos--wonks, if you will. We know we don't have much of a place in the clubrooms or at the billiard tables. But our place is here, worrying about the future, concerned about bombs and the men who push the buttons. You see, we're doing something. We care." He brushed away a tear...
...color is a ruddy red, and the language is expectedly lively: HE (with a disdainful swipe at the brow): "I will return to the past, to the scenes of my childhood." SHE (inspecting her fingernails): "Well, I'm sorry I'm not your rocking horse...
...Frankfort Distillers Corp.). The management's delicate logistics problem was how to post secret Secret Service men so that they 1) could guard Mamie while she was in or near the swimming pool, but 2) could not see, or be seen, by poolside women. It took considerable brow-furrowing to find a spot-behind an oleander hedge on a bank sloping down from the pool-where the guards would be within earshot but not eyeshot...
...play of light in the ruffles and ribbons, the gleam of the rope of huge pearls at the wrist, and the light reflections on the pendant brooch are skillfully worked through. But Ingres' most consummate draftsmanship went into modeling the head, with its smoothly coiffured hair, its serene brow, aristocratic nose and demure mouth. Finished, it met Ingres' high standards, derived from classic Greek and Roman art; the subject stood portrayed devoid of any distracting sign of the artist's labor, smoothly polished, monumental and lifelike. Ingres was able to announce with satisfaction that it had been...
Words are not enough to describe the silent beauty of this man's every step and gesture. The tilt of his head or the stoop of his shoulders, the raising of his hand or the arching of his brow, make a prose description something quite awkward if not faintly sacrilegious. Marcel Marceau is an accomplished actor, a striking artist, and a wondrous, wordless poet...