Word: gaspeing
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...guess? "Don't think your dear old Aunt Fran doesn't know which way the wind blows." Colgate 100 has similar advice to the breathlorn. The date is over, and Tom is depositing Betty at her door. She melts into a coy pucker only to be offered [gasp!] a handshake, as Tom about-faces out of the foyer. "Well, I never," Betty tells her roomie, who shrewdly asks: "Sure you're O.K. in the breath department?" Cut to the next Saturday night farewell scene. Betty proffers her hand to Tom, who ardently sweeps it away and darned...
...spurt in defection, Peking sent army units to the borders above Hong Kong and Macao, but a lot of Chinese still managed to slip through. With them came unconfirmed reports that Mao Tse-tung was suffering from throat cancer and that the Red Guard-led purge was the last gasp of a dying dictator. To be sure, Mao has not spoken publicly during his last few outings, allowing Defense Minister Lin Piao (TIME, Sept. 9) to be his mouthpiece. Last week Lin was placed directly in command of the Red Guards-a position heretofore held by Mao's chief...
...gears. Through the years, Duchamp-Villon's Horse has been known only in terms of the final small-scale model. Even as such, it has been hailed as a major breakthrough in 20th century sculpture. Henri Matisse, paying a visit to the sculptor's studio, could only gasp at its completion: "It's a projectile...
...Christ's College, Cambridge in 1944, then studied art for six years, mostly at the Royal Academy Schools, before serving a two-year apprenticeship under Henry Moore. Not until 1957 did he have a one-man show in London of savage figurative bronzes, which drove a critic to gasp, "One almost wishes them back into clay." Caro gave up modeling in clay as "lifeless." A trip to the U.S. opened his eyebeams to the possibilities of metal assemblage. "There's a fine art quality about European art even when it's made from junk," he says. "America...
MANDRAGOLA. A cool Renaissance beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) defends her virtue to the next-to-last gasp but turns out to be a good loser in Italian Director Alberto Lattuada's lively version of Machiavelli's comedy...