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...kind of sculpture calculated to make an artist rich. His massive, impressionistic panels, with their looping curves and intricate designs, are too overpowering for most people. But Artist Baizerman, a wispy little (5 ft. 5½ in., 134 Ibs.) feather of a man, has never worried about financial rewards. The Russian-born son of a harness maker, he started out as a middling good classical sculptor, tired of it in 1920 just after he won the sculpture competition for a monument in front of Grant's Tomb. "I felt it belonged to a world of the past," he says...
...black eye for Quirino and a bright new feather in cocky Mayor Lacson's cap. More important, the court's decision is a tonic for the thousands of Filipinos who applauded Lacson's cleanup campaign but who feared that corruption, in the courts as well as in the government, would quickly drag him down...
...visit to Formosa was a big, bright feather in the Nationalist cap. Its importance stemmed not only from his eminence as a philosopher, poet, diplomat and educator, but from the fact that he was once regarded as outside of and above the struggle between Communists and Kuomintang. After four years (1938-42) as Chiang's ambassador in Washington, he left his post because of a tiff with the wartime Chungking regime. In 1947 he said: "Liberal is a terrible term these days, so you'd better just call me an independent." He wrote a letter to "Dear...
...device: they strapped Willy's parachute on his own back, took him 7,000 ft. up in a fighter plane and pitched him over the side. At first Willy shot up instead of down, but then his parachute rotors deposited Willy on the ground like a duck feather on the bedroom carpet...
Director Richard Thorpe, who has one feather in his fedora for Ivanhoe, guided this old classic (I use the term rarely), through its third and probably last retake. It will be hard to improve...