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Private Regiment. The area was chosen with special care: the grasslands at the foot of Ouarsenis mountains, 100 miles west of Algiers. It is a region inhabited by some 30,000 Berber tribesmen who are ruled by their French-appointed bachaga (chief), Said Boualem, 55, a tall, gaunt landowner with the commanding face of a Sioux warrior. Boualem is an ex-major of the French army and was repeatedly decorated for gallantry in the Italian campaign of World War II. Best of all, he was a comrade-in-arms and old friend of ex-Colonel Jean Gardes, a top aide...
...went to the Mayo Clinic, where he received 15 electroshock treatments; in April he went back for ten more. "Temporarily he seemed more alert, less withdrawn, less depressed." But when he was released at the end of June, his weight was down from his normal 200 to a gaunt...
Looking as gaunt as a secondhand scarecrow, Husband Eddie Fisher flew back from a TV performance in Lisbon and hurried to his sick wife's bedside. Actor Richard Burton-who plays Mark Antony in the picture-flew in from Paris, where he had been moonlighting in a minor part in The Longest Day. Meanwhile, rumors flew every which...
Instead of the usual gaunt crone with nothing left in her face except character, this Lady Macbeth is young. She has sex, a hard jaw and a soft body with a surging bosom that she proffers without a downward glance. Her lust-at the moment, for power-is for once understandable to the masses and not just to the senior staff members at Menninger...
...paintings at Knoedler's trace Van Velde's grim road. Gaunt figures loom in his early paintings, but in his later work they begin to decompose, and finally the portraits are hidden behind impenetrable strokescreens in which forms flow free of nature and colors are free of form. The colors slosh about in swoops and swirls; the paintings seem as gay as bunting...