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...from the city's Italian districts, where her neighborhood school idea is popular. In the preliminary election most of these votes went to City Councilor Christopher A. Iannella, He also expects her to pick up votes that went to the other heavy losers in the preliminary--candidates whose political complexion resembles hers. "But even giving her most of these votes leaves her with about 45 per cent. She could pick up one or two more percentage points from a larger turnout," he said...
Sears and Logue, who in political and ideological complexion are no different from White, ran third and fourth yesterday, and the votes and money which they attracted are sure to go now to White. And Mrs. Hicks' running first is an added impetus for supporters of Logue and Sears to rally behind White, since it will doubtless provoke an it-can-happen-here reaction. White has a deep reservoir of votes in the 45 per cent of the electorate who stayed away from the polls yesterday...
...Hyman did a decade ago. (As often done, Morocco's two scenes are fused into one, which is detrimental to the play's structure, such as it is). When he chooses wrong and has departed, Portia points up the racial slur in her tag-line, "Let all of his complexion choose me so." As for the Prince of Arragon, James Valentine makes him a heavily accented and logorrheicninny; and, when he goes, Portia just can't resist making fun of his Castilian accent. She should talk! Much later, when she is identified by Lorenzo through her voice only, her comment...
...irregular and heavy that she suffered serious blood loss and near-shock, and needed transfusions. On the pill for six months, she now has "pink cheeks, regular periods, a good figure and has gained ten pounds." Wryly, a young woman in Miami says, "They've improved my complexion, done away with menstrual problems, eliminated worry, and I feel better physically. But they haven't straightened out my lousy love life...
...European actresses, for the most part, are a flat negation of everything Hollywood thinks a girl should have. Rita Tushingham, though her eyes are a glowing glory, has a porridgy complexion and a walloping set of country calves. Julie Christie has a face straight out of Terry and the Pirates and the sort of figure that looks better to a camera than it does to a man. And Jeanne Moreau has the bitsy body and petulant face (except when she smiles) of a very small child sent to bed without her supper...