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...ugly, he exerted a vast sexual attraction through his sheer intensity. A fellow student recalled that at the touch of a dancing partner's hand at a ball, Pushkin's "eyes blazed, he panted and snorted, like an ardent horse in the midst of a herd of young mares...
...produce the illusion of large-scale operations. Another nice trick is one pair of panels at stage center that slide open to reveal a Chinese opium den, and still another pair that revolve to present canted mirrors, giving the tiny chorus line something of that old Busby Berkeley thundering herd effect...
Dreams of Broadies. Yet the Packers come through as genial a bunch of sadomasochists as one could hope to meet. "Dr." Willie Davis, so named because he "made the women feel so good"; Max McGee, the eternal bachelor, dreaming of "a herd of broadies grazing on martinis"; Bart Starr, the resident nice guy. The types, allowing weight for age, can be found in all the best schoolboy fiction...
Eight months ago, Hubert Humphrey could confidently say of Wallace: "I don't think he's going to rustle up many cattle." Now, surveying the depleted Democratic herd, Humphrey takes every opportunity to excoriate Wallace as "the apostle of fear and racism." Richard Nixon has been saying for weeks that Wallace had "peaked" and would soon go downhill. Recently, however, he has found cause to attack Wallace and the "third-party kick" directly. "Do you want to make a point, or do you want to make a change?" he asked a crowd in Flint, Mich., last week. "Do you want...
Harvard did not prove itself a great football team against Bucknell. After the demoralization of the first quarter blitz, the Bisons wandered about as aimlessly as a herd of their Pawnee-persecuted ancestors...