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In his three-room hotel suite, Dominguin held court. He lounged on the bed in a black and cream silk dressing gown, chain-smoking black Mexican cigarettes and gracefully flicking the ashes to the floor. Behind him the phone jangled incessantly. ("Tell her I'm out," he would say...
Flicking out his words like whisks of a schoolmaster's cane. Attlee moved what amounted to an either-or ultimatum to the Bevanites: disband and shut up, or get out of the Labor Party. And no argy-bargy about what is or is not a party-within-a-party...
Unwashed Democracy. Strong's mind was not brilliant. He wrote bigoted gibes at almost every racial group, but with muscular directness he chronicled the feverish, unpredictable growth of New York. He reported political meetings, flicking a patrician's flinty adjective at the "unwashed democracy." He graphically described the...
It was a striking exhibit for a 19-year-old. Paolo's muscular sketches showed a smooth, well-developed style and a precise eye for detail. His best were natural subjects he saw at the zoo or the family farm: a furry, tongue-flicking anteater, a nursing calf, a...
Another refinement of the A.L.P.A. system is a string of condenser-discharge lights* down the center of the approach lane. They flash with 600-million candlepower, a brilliance that makes the bright white bars seem orange by contrast. The flashes are arranged in sequence, flicking in toward the runway and...