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...graceful nymphs," cooed a leotarded physical culture-vulture named Anne Marie Bennstrom. The "nymphs" who heaved into action at her command were a score of Hollywood refugees, ranging from Novelist and sometime Scriptwriter Aldous Huxley (6 ft. 4 in., 143½ Ibs.), who looked like a long, gaunt crane, to 341-lb., 6 ft. 2½ in. Actor Victor Buono, who looked like a healthy hippo. As they puffed around the swimming pool to the recorded strains of the River Kwai March or splashed through the 'Balinese Water Dance" to the tune of the Volga Boatman, they were...
...Mother and Child, Amen departs sharply from the traditional Madonna ideal. While the plump infant grasps for her breast, the mother appears gaunt; and the multitude of lines evoking the forms of her collar-bone, neck and face seem to suggest a network of veins to her breast. The hint of despair in her eye reinforces the impression that she is being sucked dry by her thoughtless, greedy child. In its bitter message, stated with subtlety and thoughtfulness, this work provides a revealing antithesis to the view of children implicit in Amen's prettified prints like To Wonder...
...bland and benign-looking as ever. Beside him, applauding energetically, was Nikita Khrushchev, ruler of all the Russias, who had arrived from Moscow by propjet the day before to help celebrate the tenth anniversary of Red rule in China. Just a step behind the two leaders loomed a tall, gaunt, grey-faced figure whose voice and countenance were far better known to the ruling circles of Communism than to the paraders below. His name: Liu Shao-chi. His rank: Chairman of the Chinese People's Republic. His potent role: the No. 2 man of Red China, and steely disciplinarian...
...Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai, 58, a tough-minded, nearly illiterate soldier's soldier who fought United Nations forces to a standstill in Korea. Peng's replacement: Marshal Lin Piao, 51, a graduate of Chiang Kai-shek's Whampoa Military Academy and a Communist since 1927. Gaunt, balding, intelligent, Lin Piao commanded the Red forces that cut to pieces the best U.S.-trained Nationalist divisions in Manchuria in the late '405, was Peking's first choice to command Chinese "volunteers" in Korea, but was soon hospitalized-whether from wounds or tuberculosis, Western intelligence services have...
Fingering his floppy straw hat, gaunt Earl Long then stared silently, grimly at his lawyer, Joe Arthur Sims. Sims turned to the judge. "Your Honor, I'd like to read some letters...