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...arty, just a little crowded. Books and records are stacked around the room and on the mantelpiece stands bric-a-brac suggestive of his work: a rubber "dead hand" (I Hold Your Hand in Mine), a skeleton, a model of the "World Tree" in which he has stuck a dustmop, and a flowery piece of crockery labeled "Opium" (The Old Dope Peddler). He has a much pleasanter voice than his record would suggest...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: 'The Guy Who Taught Us Math...' | 3/21/1959 | See Source »

...grand piano, on which she battered tempestuously when the mood was on her. Bored with the chef's chef-d'oeuvres. she was seen marching up to her suite with $50 worth of groceries in tow. She gave interviews from her bed, her hair like a black dustmop, her bag-rimmed eyes like the burning tips of cigars. Sometimes she actually lit up a small cigar and slunk about the room, her Magnanimous bosom heaving like a passionate surf as she flung out a flood of Italian. When informed that her first U.S. picture would be shown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: World's Greatest Actress | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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