Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plastic surgeon in Tokyo caddishly blabbed that the bosom of the new Miss Universe, Japan's Akiko Kojima, is bolstered with interior plastics, declared that he had given shapely (37-23-38) Akiko injections just before she went to California. The doctor's statement drew a blushing denial from Akiko, got a stormy rise out of her mother. "Terrible! Terrible!" cried Mrs. Hisako Kojima. "How could she have had an operation? She's the same size as last year...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak...
...Guards have a hard time keeping the crowd moving, not because people are impressed by the show so much as because puzzlement halts them. Jackson Pollock's drip picture called Cathedral stops visitors cold. "Where is the cathedral?" they ask. Andrew Wyeth's Children's Doctor and Edward Hooper's stark, vivid Lighthouse at Two Lights are the standout favorites. Among the sculptures on display, Gaston Lachaise's hugely curvaceous Standing Woman is a cynosure. Commented one visitor in the exhibition guest book: "We could use a hefty girl like that in our plant...
...ordinary literary standards, Guest's verse was mundane doggerel, written in soporific singsong and filled with synthetic back-country colloquialism. Guest's world abounded with wimmen folks, doctor folks, farmer folks and jes' plain folks. He extolled friendship and friends, God and worship, his wife Nellie, his son Bud, his daughter Janet, the virtues of porch sitting, of babies, tablecloths, wood-burning stoves and wooden tubs, sausage, and two kinds of pie (lemon and raisin). To Edgar Guest, death was "God's great slumber grove" or "the golden afterwhile." Samples of his rhyming...
Wild Strawberries (Swedish). In his 18th film, Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman examines one day in the life of a very old, eminent doctor, employing the language of dream and symbol to achieve a moving...