Word: hides
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Valerie Eliot, the poet's widow and sole executrix, has so far felt bound to carry out her husband's expressed wish that no authorized biography of him be written. Even when the unpublished material is finally released, the character which Eliot himself made every effort to hide will remain deeply perplexing. It was "not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; not an expression of personality, but an escape from personality" that Eliot demanded of himself as a poet in his essay Tradition and the Individual Talent. And with the Impersonal Theory of Poetry Eliot sought...
Serpico is an energetic melodrama, with just enough realistic bite to shine against its current rivals. Its entertainment values hide a sour joke: one of the few heroic stories of our time has been filmed by men who lack their hero's passionate commitment to advance righteous endeavors to the necessary ends...
...Kirk Douglas-san, your autograph." Regretfully rubbing his chin, which is as deeply dimpled as Kirk's, Mitchum resolved that future excursions would have to be incognito. Next day on the set, he inspected a possible disguise: the beehive headgear originally worn by jobless, mendicant samurai trying to hide their shame...
...have managed to keep their athletic careers so separate from their personal lives, although the size that serves him so well on the court becomes an attention-getting brand as soon as he steps on the street. "When you're this tall, there's no place to hide," he complains. To be less conspicuous, Walton slouches in chairs until he is eye level with companions and walks close to buildings to camouflage his height. When celebrity hunters do approach, a weak smile crosses Walton's puckish face, and he professes to be just another guy named Bill...
Centaurs, parakeets, a curly tailed unicorn resting on a carpet of flowers while pomegranate juices drip on its milky hide; heraldic crests, peasants reaping, Hector girding himself in 15th century steel, slim ladies picnicking in the everlasting green glow of a medieval Arcadia-the great exhibition of 14th to 16th century tapestries, jointly organized by the National Museums of France and New York's Metropolitan, is an exquisite arbor of diversion. Shown last October at the Grand Palais in Paris, it opened in Manhattan last week. It is undoubtedly the most important exhibition of its kind ever mounted...