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SNOW WHITE, by Donald Barthelme. Snow White and her seven dwarfish accomplices suffer through the complexities of contemporary life in a witty and wild retelling of the old fairy story...
...even three solid places on the last day at Dartmouth was too little late for the Crimson, who finished ninth in the three-day meet with 19 points, a dwarfish total beside Yale's winning score...
...matter of fact, he is twins. Frank and twin brother Fred Ryan (a dwarfish 6-5) are just a couple of the reasons Harvard may be in for a might rough night...
...years since his death in 1901, the dwarfish figure of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has been surrounded by a fabric of legends-that he was a lecherous troll, happy only when he lived in the midst of a bevy of rowdy streetwalkers; that he was a black sheep and a profligate driven from his home by a wealthy and outraged noble family. The truth of the matter may be quite the opposite, as a show called "Toulouse-Lautrec and His Family" at the Museum of Rennes, France, sets out to prove...
...April 1860 was a Southern sympathizer and a devoted backer of Jeff Davis for President of the whole U.S.; he lived to be military governor of occupied New Orleans and became known throughout the South as "Beast" Butler. Illinois' Senator Stephen A. Douglas, with his massive head and dwarfish body, was a man in the middle; in his efforts to please North and South, he became anathema to both. Illinois' Republican Representative Owen Lovejoy had seen his older brother, an abolitionist, killed by an Alton mob, and he knew what he thought about slavery: "It has the violence...