Word: halos
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What happened to Dostoevsky's four part masterpiece shouldn't happen to an idiot. First Director Ivan Pyriev and his collaborators at Mosfilm Studios decided to cut the last three-fourths of the novel. Next they relieved Prince Myshkin of his epilepsy, replacing it with a halo. To complete the transformation they added an exaggeratedly romantic, musical score, and put grease on the actors' faces (to make them look involved), and used a color technique that turned flesh into the inside of an orange peel...
...troublesome parliamentary guerrilla. He began by objecting to "almost all the affirmations'' made in the opening round of speeches, once stormed in a blind rage out of the conference hall-and into the ladies' rest room. (Said a Guatemalan delegate: "If there were not a halo of blood surrounding this flabby Cantinflas. he would actually be amusing.") Che's own opening speech was a 2½-hour diatribe against the U.S. (which he called "the monster"). Then he turned around, became the picture of reason and light, said that Cuba still considered itself a member...
...devils. Seldom do living people make the grade. However, twice I have been commissioned to depict in stained glass Presbyterian Eugene Blake as president of the National Council of Churches. The Redford Avenue Presbyterian Church in Detroit and the First Presbyterian Church in Fort Worth both have him, without halo, wings or forked tail...
...control system that will be vital at higher altitudes, where conventional controls turn mushy in the thin atmosphere. They worked fine. Descending, he looked out of his tiny window at most of California, part of Oregon and Baja California in Mexico, noting that the horizon wore a white halo and the sky was "a nice, dark blue...
...Within two minutes the star was in the center of the halo, which appeared to be about ten times the size of the moon. Then the star became elongated, in a dumbbell shape, as if a separation were taking place. Then the missile became a spot of light as it merged with the horizon in the purplish light of the early dawn...