Word: haire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scintillation counter over every square foot of the grounds. The counter registered 60 times the normal (background) radioactivity. Technicians, looking like spacemen in white rubber suits with protective masks and gloves, used long-handled shovels to put radioactive matter away in a special truck. Frightened townsfolk washed their hair as often as Mary Martin in South Pacific, and many trooped in to the local police station to have their radioactivity tested. All this furor was touched off by a little Putten girl's stuffy nose...
...fights before he was solidly in control. For his trouble, Bob Young got control of $2 billion worth of assets, including the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, the Nickel Plate, Pere Marquette and Missouri Pacific. But in the intense strain of the battle, he also suffered a nervous breakdown. His sandy hair had turned white, and at 45 he looked 15 years older...
...lovingly recorded. The play of light in the ruffles and ribbons, the gleam of the rope of huge pearls at the wrist, and the light reflections on the pendant brooch are skillfully worked through. But Ingres' most consummate draftsmanship went into modeling the head, with its smoothly coiffured hair, its serene brow, aristocratic nose and demure mouth. Finished, it met Ingres' high standards, derived from classic Greek and Roman art; the subject stood portrayed devoid of any distracting sign of the artist's labor, smoothly polished, monumental and lifelike. Ingres was able to announce with satisfaction that...
Svensk; Rank). On the subject of temptation, Martin Luther once said: "You can't prevent the birds flying over your head, but you can keep them from nesting in your hair." With this for his text, Swedish Director Ingmar (Torment) Bergman*has preached in this picture a sermon on sensuality that the pastor of Wittenberg would scarcely have said amen to. But the Swedes, whose notions about sex have changed since Luther's time, were tickled pink with the picture. So were a lot of European critics...
...strange hell had happened." He is tantalized by a fleeting vision of beauty-a girl he thinks he once loved. But as pieces of the mad mosaic drop into place, it becomes clear that he is not facing a beautiful girl but a harridan with blue-rinsed hair and "grey old teeth that licked at him with such a smile of knowledge." In the end, the knowledge comes to him that his fate is at the mercy of a vengeful crone he has jilted...