Word: gauntness
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...Make Love. A trumped-up plot to bring Marilyn Monroe and France's rugged, gaunt-faced Yves Montand together takes the long way around to Marilyn's arms, since Montand is an unlikely billionaire who wants to be loved for himself alone. The game is forced...
...summer afternoon in 1940, a gaunt young man entered the suburban Mexico City villa of Leon Trotsky, and asked for criticism of a manuscript. Trotsky invited him into his study, where the young man smashed an Alpine pickax down on Trotsky's skull. The dying man's screams brought two bodyguards on the run; they knocked the assassin down, kicked him nearly unconscious. Cried Trotsky: "Don't kill him. This man has a story to tell...
...Gaunt Looks. The 21-member Graham troupe presented a selection of exotically titled Graham dances that are already becoming modern classics-Seraphic Dialogue, Embattled Garden, Diversion of Angels-plus two new works. Acrobats of God and Alcestis. Choreographer Graham took the title of Acrobats from the "athletae Dei,'' the early Church Fathers who subjected themselves to various self-imposed disciplines. Their modern counterparts, suggests Graham ironically, are the self-sacrificing devotees of the dance...
...wide barre casually doing deep knee bends while three male members of the company lying beneath them mirrored the action in reverse. Choreographer Graham's part in the whole thing consisted of sulking behind a screen, emerging occasionally to freeze the whip-flicking ballet master with gaunt looks...
...history has supplied Horgan with some fine prototypes: his tall, gaunt, white-bearded General Quait brings to crotchety life the veteran U.S. Indian fighter, General George Crook; and his hero's final mission recalls the remarkable trek of Lieut. Charles Gatewood into the mountains of Mexico to talk the unpredictable Geronimo into surrendering. That surrender, as Horgan puts it, marked the end of "an Indian war that has raged since the days of Cortez." Matthew Hazard's Arizona was made safe for supermarkets and swimming pools, just as John Cozad's Platte River country was plowed into...