Word: hara
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...attack after the Dowager Empress (Dame Flora Robson in plastic eyelids and black contact lenses) darkly observes: "China is a prostrate cow. The foreigners are not content to milk her, but must also butcher her." Ava goes to work in the hospital like a Pekinese Scarlett O'Hara, pawning her emeralds for food and drugs. On her way back to the compound she gets winged by a Boxer sniper. The kindly old Viennese doctor (kindly old Paul Lukas) tells her that amputation is the only hope. Ava refuses. "Don't you want to live?" he asks...
...Hara-Kiri. After graduating from Tokyo University in 1911 with a degree in German law, Shoriki flunked the civil service exam that would have opened the way to a government career; he joined the Tokyo police force instead. By 1924 he was a deputy police chief, but that year he was sacked in disgrace after having inadequately guarded the prince regent (now Emperor Hirohito) during a botched assassination attempt...
...damn, double-damn, triple-damn, hell" trills one of the tots); the evil of drink ("My weakness in the eyes of God." says Preacher Wally Cox, "could mean the end of my ministry"); embryology ("Donny took his nap in the fetal position," coos Mimsy Farmer to Maureen O'Hara); scatology ("Here's a dictionary," pants Mimsy to MacArthur. "with all the dirty words underlined"); and courtship ("Honest, Mom," insists MacArthur to O'Hara, "all we were doing was kissing-that's all"). The Spencer family owns a crag in the Grand Tetons, but they are poor...
...long before a Tribman discovered the oasis next door. Soon the place was crawling with his colleagues-from O'Hara, who got drinks on credit, to Publisher Ogden Reid, who could take his stand at the bar with the best of his boys and, on occasion, would decide then and there that he personally should pen the next day's lead editorial...
...rather, character resemblance." As she explains it: when someone sees a familiar person in a flash of light, he does not recognize the person feature by feature but by the total impression, the bearing, silhouette, posture or some dominating characteristic. In her portrait of Art Critic Frank O'Hara, on view at Manhattan's Graham Gallery last week, the face is painted out. but the man is perfectly recognizable by his peculiarly liquid and languid stance. To Painter de Kooning, each person even has his own light: "One subject of mine has a silvery light that just...