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Among the supporting cast, Oscar Homolko is wonderfully ingratiating as the Community loss who brings Potts to Moscow. The most that can be said for Nadia Gray is that she manages to look well even in the grim garb of the Kremlin...
...North End would descend once a year upon the Square to crown Columbus with a wreath. Not to be out-done, the M.I.T. students, who had a club house at 6 Louisburg Square, trussed Aristides up in a cup and gown. The Association took a dim view of Aristides' garb. Now the green is fenced and only residents have keys to the gates...
...Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, and later Erskine Caldwell and Faulkner-were blatantly detailed, and behind them stood the anthropologists and psychoanalysts with their case histories. But the generation still had no Kinsey. It was left to him to clothe the subject in the sober, convincing, guaranteed-to-be-scientific garb of statistics...
Trudging across this bleak land last week, surrounded by adoring crowds wherever he went, was a gentle, half-deaf little wisp of a man, dressed in the garb of poverty-a homespun dhoti and cheap brown canvas sneakers-but lighted by a flame of authority that has made him one of India's most notable spiritual leaders. His name is Vinoba Bhave (pronounced bah vay). He has no place in the government or any other secular organization; he is what Hindus call an acharya (preceptor). Only a land with holy cities, sacred rivers and thin margins between want...
...artist must also be a personality," he fashioned a personality of his own. He let his hair grow down over his ears, wore a gates-ajar collar, a flowing tie, funereal black hat, and dropped cigarette ashes all over himself. Aspiring journalists began copying his curt prose and his garb. Said the Manchester Guardian: "He taught Fleet Street that a gossip column should be written . . . with more candor than charity. He got up on stilts to teach reporters how to get off their knees in the presence of the powerful...