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...describe Margaret Leighton's eyes "as pools of blue starlight," the phrase was changed to "wounds of inner pain" (on reflection, perhaps both were a bit much). One of our movie critic's most painful losses was his description of Tony Curtis as "a sort of Gary Grunt." And this week the People writer attempted to summarize a congressional move to lift Richard Burton's U.S. visa on grounds of moral turpitude in a poem that began thus...
...widespread sense of Autoritatsmudigkeit-weariness of authority-in Germany today, and Erhard fits that mood. Erhard is fasci nated by ideas and by people. Where Adenauer could loftily dismiss a dissenting aide, Erhard cannot resist the temptation to listen to all the arguments. "Ja, tell me more," he will grunt, and almost never flatly contradicts anyone...
...sung in a "baby or Marilyn Monroe voice," a "Marlene Dietrich foggy voice," or a jazz singer's voice. There were also-as there are in much of the music she sings-passages calling for whatever noises she cared to make -a dog's bark, a grunt, a sigh. The audience responded with plain fury, moving Cage to recite a Zen parable in Berberian's defense: In a far country there lived a beautiful girl who was desired by all the men who saw her. One day she found herself alone at a river bank and decided...
...Dodger lead dissolved to one slim game. For the first time in years, lines of fans stood all day outside Busch Stadium waiting for the ticket gates to open. "We're ready," promised Cardinal Manager Johnny Keane. As for Alston, he would only grunt: "Another game, another series...
Mysterious Membrane. It is usually possible to tell within an hour after birth whether a preemie (or occasionally a full-term baby) is running into respiratory difficulties. His breathing gets faster and shallower; he may grunt on every exhalation or froth at the lips. In Patrick Kennedy's case, Pediatrician James Drorbaugh saw enough alarming signs to order him rushed, in an Isolette, to Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston...