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...cue, the baritone stepped to the microphone patiently waited out a fanfare of trumpets, horns, trombones and drums, and lifted his voice in song...
...Club asked sarcastically, "Can I show you the way out?", got a bash in the face for his flippancy. When the ensuing brawl ended, he turned to spirited Actress Siobhan (pronounced Shi-vawn) McKenna, 38, one of the group, and protested, "You scratched me." Quick to pick up a cue, Siobhan studied her hands with the care of a Lady Macbeth, then held them high and blared, "These are Irish hands, and they are clean." Cook was unmoved. "This is a British face," said he, dabbing gingerly at a cut mouth, "and it's bleeding...
...tobacco advertising entirely. Though Italy's cynical citizens assumed that the law was meant to protect the cigarettes produced by the state tobacco monopoly against competition from imported cigarettes (whose sales depend much more heavily on advertising), U.S. tobaccomen began to worry lest the U.S. Government take a cue from Britain and Italy. They found scant comfort in news that the U.S. Public Health Service has just decided to set up a panel to study the relationship between smoking and cancer...
Unleashing Talents. Taking its cue from Flexner, the Carnegie Corporation itself has long specialized in supporting the one inexpensive study that rouses others to give on a grand scale. Today this is partly by necessity. Carnegie is a powerhouse among U.S. foundations, which now total 12,000. But in market value of its assets ($286.6 million), it runs a poor fifth to the top four: Hartford and Duke (each with more than $400 million). Rockefeller ($615 million) and the colossal Ford Foundation ($2.5 billion). Last fiscal year alone, Ford earmarked $155.7 million for new grants, as against Carnegie...
Though Moore takes his cue from nature-primarily from the human figure, but also from "natural forms such as bones, shells and pebbles"-he has always avoided what he regards as the two major perils in the sculptor's art: the temptation to reproduce only appearances, and the feeling that the artist must pursue some inherited ideal of beauty. What Moore has always been after is not beauty but vitality. "Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function," he believes. "The first aims at pleasing the senses; the second has a spiritual vitality...