Word: chins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nikon view finder at George Shultz, Secretary of State-designate. As Mims cranked off frames of the imperturbable Shultz through two days of testimony, the cameraman concluded that he had not seen such an open and luminescent pate since the days of Dean Rusk or such a noble double chin since Henry Kissinger used to come around to explain the world...
DIED. Kenneth More, 67, veteran British stage and screen actor whose characterizations ranged from the rollicking buffoon of such films as Doctor in the House (1954) to the chin-up R.A.F. pilot of Reach for the Sky (1956); of Parkinson's disease; in London. "I seem fated to be either the stiff-upper-lip war hero or the hearty, beer-drinking idiot," More once complained. The remark was overly self-deprecating, as his wonderfully whimsical performance in Genevieve (1953) testified...
...bread, tearing it to small bits, which she tosses one by one on the floor; this is her project. In the bed opposite, a Bedouin wearing a white shawl and a deep purple blouse turns from side to side in fierce perplexity. On her forehead one tattoo, on her chin another. These are marks of beauty. "She did not understand what happened," says an orderly...
...transformations began early. Stallone was born in a New York City charity ward. A forceps delivery severed a facial nerve, paralyzing one side of his lip, chin and tongue. Though he is a colorfully articulate speaker, Stallone must carefully pick his way through sentences. Says he: "I've got what you'd call a Mafioso voice, and I'm self-conscious about it." Father Frank, a Sicilian immigrant, moved the family to Silver Springs, Md., and opened a beauty shop. His mother Jacqueline, a former "Long Stem Rose" chorine in a Billy Rose revue, started...
...pleasant prospect for the 25 out of 1,000 American teen-agers (90% girls) afflicted with spinal curvatures, or scoliosis. For those with severe curves, surgery often was required. It too had its unpleasant consequences, sometimes including nine months' confinement in a hip-to-chin plaster body cast...