Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the conclave, Vatican masons and carpenters will have walled off all except one entrance to a huge area surrounding the Sistine Chapel. The cardinals, each accompanied by two nonvoting assistants, or conclavists, will file through the remaining door into the barricaded area. The marshal of the conclave, usually a Roman nobleman, will lock the door...
...apricot to pear-tree stump (about 100 yards at a time). He cuts his lawn with a hand mower, rakes his own leaves. His blood pressure is 135 over 90. The systolic reading is low for any man over 65; the diastolic is near the upper limit of normal-except that there are so few records of men in their 90's that normal is ill-defined. His pulse is a low 64, as it has been for years. (In highly trained athletes it tends to run below the 72 that is considered normal for the general...
Gwen Verdon plays the sexy siren, Lola, and now that she appears close up, it's easy to understand why she looked so much better from a distance in the musical. To the movie-viewer, Miss Verdon's lines are plain enough except for the aging ones, which remain well hidden until the last. And when she moves about, as she does so well, her facial makeup has a tendency to shift, giving her face an appearance not unlike that of lumpy oatmeal...
...Except for dishes like hamburgers or french fries, most meals are bleakly bare. Catsup can be obtained if requested, ceremoniously parcelled out in paper thimbles. But the reassuring jars of the tomato spice, which held enough to hide the most unattractive mystery meat, are gone...
Miss Regan claimed that she obtain blanket permission to reproduce a six inch square of the map, including the buildings in question. She said that "since I am blind, I have no idea of what is on this map except that it is of the Harvard Square area...