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...good a performer-but he is the better looking of the two, and he knows it. He has a firm but nonchalant acting style ("Method? No, I just act") that belies his vanity. During the shooting of Splendor in the Grass, he whipped out a pocket comb every time the camera made a pass at him, irritating Director Kazan to the flash point...
Kingdom of Fantasy. These works rarely showed gods, nor did they often portray men, as in the combat scene surmounting the golden comb (see color). The favorite subjects of the Scythians were animals, and few civilizations created an animal kingdom with a more graceful sense of fantasy. A boar's mane is not just so much wild and scraggly hair, but a crescent of curls to be worn like a crown. A tiger's body is as supple as an accordion: every muscle, every rib, every stripe is there. A deer, though kneeling, seems to be darting through...
...Alumni comb mid-West states for Dean Monro's "barefoot farm boys," but the University makes no real talent search for qualified students from the greater Boston area. Applications from local high schools have even fallen off slightly. Lack of interest in attracting local studen can in part be traced to the Administration's apparent opinion that commuters are "second-class citizens," deprived of the educational benefits of dorm life. Certainly this was true when President Pusey took office in 1953. A study made by the Office of Tests reveals that '52 commuters felt a real isolation from the resident...
...bongo drums in Denver's Exodus lie unused and uncared-for. In San Francisco, where it all started, even the Co-Existence Bagel Shop has been closed since autumn. And in Chicago, when a newspaper wanted a "typical" picture of two beats in a coffeehouse, reporters had to comb the city for hours before they found two sad, sandaled shades and dragged them to the Oxford to be shot...
...bustled up to lead her to the prize table and a flock of waiting photographers. The girl who had just successfully stormed the male citadel of the Millrose Games turned anxiously to a nearby friend. "Quick, do you have a mirror?" Wilma Rudolph asked. "Quick, do you have a comb...