Word: dwarfs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where had they come from? Leopoldville, that unfriendly capital across the Congo River. Who had sent them? "That dwarf abbe," Fulbert Youlou, the deposed President who had vowed to overthrow Massamba-Debat's regime. Furthermore, he charged, the commandos had been trained and equipped by the Congolese army with the aid of a foreign embassy that he refused to name. "It's curious," he said, "but it was not the United States embassy...
Bare-breasted Rhinemaidens (an effect achieved by body stockings tipped in rubber at the critical points) fondle an oversexed dwarf...
Director Kramer, who seldom resorts to nuance when an overstatement will do, gets off to a bumbling start when Actor Michael Dunn, a 78-lb. dwarf, clambers onto the ship's rail to announce: "I'm Herr Glocken, and this is a ship of fools." Wading through heavy condensations of Miss Porter's prose, his fellow travelers check in to introduce themselves: the troubled and tire some young American lovers (Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal), a band of down-at-the-heel flamenco dancers led by Jose Greco, an anti-Semitic Nazi publisher (Jose Ferrer), a gentle Jewish...
Michael Dunn is a dwarf. At the age of 30, he stands 3 ft. 10 in. with his socks on and weighs 78 lbs., if you include his eyeglasses. Dunn is also an actor and a singer. His talents in both areas are considerable...
Parabolic Process. The son of an engineer, Dunn was born with two dislocated hips. "By the time I was four, I realized I would be a dwarf," he says. And when he was five, the trouble was diagnosed-chondrodystrophy, a rare form of nonhereditary dwarfism believed to be caused by a chemical imbalance during gestation. Undaunted, Dunn terrified his parents by tearing off in hot pursuit of a normal childhood. He did not quite get one, but he managed to break his nose playing football and his leg ice-skating, and he almost drowned when, at ten, he jumped...