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...started in the front, where I had many chances to launch my five-foot-seven frame in front of opposition spikes. And wouldn't you know it, on the very first couple of points, I had a chance to block a spike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Intramural Glory | 10/5/1996 | See Source »

Aman has a tip for Americans wishing to improve their verbal-abuse techniques: "Look for a distinguishing characteristic. Each of us is deviant in some way. For instance, I wear glasses, I'm five-foot-seven, 20 pounds overweight, have short hair and a Kissinger accent. So you could start off calling me a fat, four-eyed, runty, reactionary, sewer-mouth Kraut." Still, he considers it unsporting, and sometimes destructive, for cursers to pick on physical characteristics. Says he: "Insults should be aimed at behavior, something a person can change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Insult Artistry | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...assuming authority - or flouting it. In high school, Allen tried to become a featherweight boxer, and spent many an afternoon fleeing the truant officer. Out of experience came a typical self-deprecatory gag. "I wanted to be an FBI man," Woody will moan. "But you have to be five-foot-seven and have 20/20 vision. Then I toyed with becoming a master criminal-but you have to be five-foot-seven and have 20/20 vision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woody Allen: Rabbit Running | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

Sophomore Bill Teachout and Bill Rack are the other probable starters. Teacheault is five-foot-seven, and Rack is three inches taller. One letterman, Jim Reap, will be on the Wesleyan bench, which is composed entirely of sophomores and juniors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Quintet Plays Wesleyan; Smith Hurt | 12/9/1950 | See Source »

...lately by Actor Reginald Gardiner. When last April Producer Wanger borrowed her from M.G.M. for Algiers, it was discovered that she would require padding to fill out her bust -a deficiency no cinemogler had noted in Extase. In her first seven months in Hollywood, 23-year-old, five-foot-seven Hedy had lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 25, 1938 | 7/25/1938 | See Source »

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