Word: gauntness
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gave her first concert at six and was a Carnegie Hall sensation at 13, spent years trying to live down her public image as a gaunt, pig-tailed prodigy in knee stockings. So when twelve full months were mistakenly shaved from her age last week, she took the unwomanly step of setting the record straight. Some invitations to her birthday party had made her 24. Anna Maria, the waiflike Lili of the Broadway musical Carnival!, puffed out the candles on her two-tiered cake and announced determinedly: "I'm 25-a quarter of a century...
...Virginian. In private, Coop could talk to royalty without fingering his white tie. Onscreen, he guarded his strength-of-ten, a quality that came to be called "bankability" in Hollywood's nervous '50s. For 36 years-a longer span than even Gable's-he was the gaunt good man who did what he had to do. He turned down the fattest male film part ever written-Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind-because he thought he "wasn't quite that dashing," and felt bad about playing the middle-aged rake in Love in the Afternoon...
Asked about his favorite U.S. vacation spot, Cartoonist Charles (Monster Rally) Addams gave Town & Country Magazine a reply that left the city fathers of Tucson, Ariz., wondering whether they had been panned or praised. Said Addams, whose macabre drawings feature a ghoul-infested mansion occupied by a gaunt female vampire, a fat male fiend and a child ogre: "I have never been there, but from what I hear, it sounds like my kind of town...
...Period of Darkness. The enthusiasm of these new-style heretic hunters is being fanned by a number of antiquarians. Dean of them all is tall, gaunt Déodat Roche, 79, a former magistrate of Arques, whose lifelong dedication to spreading the Cathar gospel, organizing pilgrimages to Montségur, and following the strict vegetarian regimen of his heretic ancestors has earned him the nickname "the Cathar Bishop." More active is Sociology Professor René Nelli of the University of Toulouse ("the vicar of Catharism"), who lectures on the subject all over France and has been commissioned by the French...
...paintings were the work of tall, gaunt James Strombotne, 26, one of the most promising of the young figurative artists now working around Los Angeles. Such Hollywood-type collectors as Otto Preminger, Andre Previn and Billy Wilder own canvases by him, and so does Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Strombotne is featured in Art in America's annual "New Talent, U.S.A.," and the Pasadena Art Museum is planning the most precocious honor of all-a full-fledged retrospective next fall...