Word: doorknobs
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Even in Hollywood's Cloud-Cuckoo-Land, all falls are not prat. Last week doorknob-bald Cinemidol Yul Brynner looked more dashed than dashing after he tried some Cossack-style horsemanship for MGM's The Brothers Karamazov, swooped too low, fractured a vertebra. And Cinemactress Rita Hayworth kicked up her heels during the Pal Joey shooting, got sent to the showers with a gimpy tendon...
...doorknob he had clasped, hating the napkin
...only a few would have survived. Inside the standing houses, Venetian blinds had been tossed around like bundles of spears, furniture hurled in grotesque stacks, cloth torn and seared. A refrig erator had exploded from the change in air pressure. Two of three steel industrial buildings were ruined. A doorknob had been torn from a door and cast half through a wall, so that there was a doorknob where there was no door. Each of two typical American houses, one brick, one wood, was a pile of rubble and jackstraws. A mannequin still sat at a kitchen table in another...
...Soviet about-face was one more sign that Joseph Stalin's successors are capable of a surprising indecisiveness in foreign affairs. Just a month before, the Communists slammed the door on a four-power conference, then suddenly opened it again, clumsily recovering their grip on the doorknob...
...hour but Frank and Bill and Tom were stronger. Meanwhile, Joe was having a great time lighting everyone's pant legs on fire. Then we dragged Joe from under the couch and six of us put him in the closet with Barbara. We put a wooden chair under the doorknob and then the hall bureau behind it. At first they pounded on the door and yelled, but after an hour or so they got very quiet outside of an occasional mumble or scream...