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...simian mask and opulent villas. He was, it seemed, the existentialist answer to Mediterranean man. And as such he appeared to be one of the very few sculptors who, in the 20th century, had discovered a fresh convention for the human body - spindly and eroded, impossibly vertical, a gobbet of clay stretched toward infinity. The idea that Giacometti's achievement was to have found a new stylization of the body has stuck to him in death, though it repelled him in life. "It is a monstrous misunderstanding!" he once exclaimed. "All the critics, all the writers spoke about...
...right for De Gaulle to annoy the perfidious English, the vulgar Americans or the impossible Belgians," huffed a Gallic gourmet in Paris last week, meanwhile extracting a gobbet of white succulence from a pink lobster tail. "But to endanger lobster shipments, so vital to France, by picking a fight with the Brazilians-that's too much...
...cause of Hagerty's rebuke, carried without comment in the pro-Eisenhower Chronicle (circ. 190,045) last week, was a gobbet of gossip in a syndicated column that appears in the Chronicle each Sunday under the head "Confidential Memo," by John J. Miller. The item: "Vice President Nixon is talking behind President Eisenhower's back and saying things that would be considered in the worst taste if ever printed. Perhaps the mildest statement he made at one gathering recently was, 'Sometimes I think he's just a jerk'-meaning Ike, of course...
...University College of Medicine (cooperating with Sloan-Kettering in the study) injected Novocain, measured an inch and a half below the tattoo mark, and made a neat incision about an inch long across the arm. He folded back the skin above and below it, then cut out a little gobbet of flesh which embraced the site of the implant. All these biopsy specimens were flown to Manhattan for study. From some, it was found, all cancer cells had vanished within the week; in others, a few straggling survivors were detected. Dr. James removed only one of the two implants...
...general postoffice of human life [feeling] a twinge of sciatica in my left glutear muscle ..." The producers may also have trouble with some of the animal actors (including an egg-laying rooster) called for in Joyce's script. Sample stage direction: The bulldog growls, his scruff standing, a gobbet of pig's knuckle between his molars through which rabid scums pit tie dribbles. ··· More than 1,000 Social Registerites and hangers-on clanked, rustled and jangled into Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to feel real regal at the annual Imperial Ball, sponsored for charity...