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...sports' problems have rendered the public insensitive to new reports of abuse. Who, except for a couple of sanctimonious sportswriters, cares anymore whether State University gets docked two or three years of television appearances for buying a car for Johnny Superstar? What casual reader, for that matter, raised his eyebrow more than slightly upon hearing of the abuses in the USF basketball program...
...famous violinist. David O. Selznick had bought the remake rights in 1939 and brought Bergman to Hollywood to re-create her role opposite Leslie Howard. The film made her a star, and Selznick made an image for this shy, frugal, occasionally awkward young woman: no makeup, no eyebrow plucking, no glamorizing. It was a fresh angle, and it worked especially well in the wartime '40s, when frivolous excess was regarded as unpatriotic. The gurgling approval of the women's clubs and pictures like The Bells of St. Mary's and Joan of Arc were almost inevitable...
...them. Adults fulfill an essential part of themselves in being authorities; it is one way of expressing care for others." To demonstrate what authority is, Sennett portrays not a politician dominating a crowd but Conductor Pierre Monteux, whose "ease at being in control" was so complete that a raised eyebrow was enough to cue the French horns...
Fred W Friendly, a pioneer of television journalism, knows the power of the combination: "Pictures can so create a climate that at the last moment a comment can be just a raised eyebrow." But, he adds, commentary is self-defeating if the viewer says, "Now that I know how it came out, I know how they chose their pictures." With all three networks gussying up, or glitching up, their news, they need to reconsider whether analysis becomes opinionated show biz instead of a momentary oasis of reflective comment...
Ordinarily neither of these outlandish applications would have raised an eyebrow over at the patronage-happy pension board. Unfortunately for Hynes and Sinnott, however, their cases came to light after the Boston Globe uncovered another suspicious pension request. Robert Toomey Sr., 40, manager of operations for the department of public facilities, claimed that he had suffered a ruptured cervical disc in a car accident while on City business. This left him in "constant pain, unable to do any lifting or bending." His disability request: $30,240 a year. According to the Globe, he had taken out nine separate accident insurance...