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...heaved in a wild dance at a private Roman orgy. When Katharine Hepburn passed through town recently, the paparazzi mounted Vespa scooters, putt-putted out to waylay her at Fiumicino Airport. Because Ava Gardner once called him a dirty name. Paparazzo Tazio Secchiaroli vengefully hid for hours in a cardboard box on a Cinecitta movie lot, finally got what he came for: an unflattering shot of Ava in an old bath towel, hair wet and stringy...
...modern was made most strongly by Bill Wilder's ingenious score, which shifted gracefully from twelfth century ars antiqua to the twentieth century twelve tone scale. Shimizu's set was a black curtain whose space was miraculously filled with a few flowing white splotches; his props were colored cardboard; and even his costumes were abstractions of Medieval clothing. Chris Avery and Robert Hoguet used the simplest imaginable lighting patterns, and somehow it all worked. Unbridled enthusiasm, which the best amateur productions usually boast as their highest achievement, here gave way to something much finer, style. Even if one understood only...
...have learned to cope with an alien world of threatening doorframes and ridiculously small chairs. At night they drape their feet over suitcase racks placed at the ends of their Hollywood-style hotel beds. After a game, supper may be a piece of pumpkin pie served on a cardboard plate on the way to the airport. The players gulp it down, then plunge into sleep, mouths slack, heads banging against frosty windows. Says Robertson: "Whenever you get a chance to sleep, you just got to close your eyes...
Resplendent in pink robe and home-made cardboard crown, Homer A. Tomlinson, bishop of the Church of God and presidential candidate of the Theocratic Party, urged a crowd of 150 undergraduates "to be as daring spiritually as you are intellectually." But, before Tomlinson could win many converts, three University police hustled him to a Lamont office...
...after he received his M.D., went into business. He did not do well until he got the idea for the Erector set while absentmindedly watching a network of girders being erected for the electrification of the New Haven Railroad. He and his wife made the first set from cardboard parts. In 1916 he changed his firm's name to the A. C. Gilbert...