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...have the pulpy look of ancient artifacts dug up after centuries. Some are whimsical toys others complex hieroglyphs-one called Sacrifice is at once bull and matador, the horns becoming the man and his sword while another semicircular form suggests that the whole object is the sword's hilt...
...JONES. Merely the best comedy in years. A lusty lad's progress through 18th century England is sometimes Hogarthian, always hilarious, and acted to the hilt by Albert Finney, Hugh Griffith and supporting company under the masterful direction of Tony Richardson...
...Hampshire, where he planned a slam-bang handshaking tour to kick off his campaign. It was raining buckets that day, but Rocky plodded gamely on, sometimes through ankle-deep mud. Despite the storm, he found hundreds of hands to shake. And he played the grass-roots campaigner to the hilt. In Milford he sipped a chocolate soda in a drugstore. In Nashua he visited a Methodist church, and devoured a steak in a restaurant while a crowd stood outside in the rain and peered at him through the window. In Manchester he bought a pair of overshoes while photographers recorded...
Leopard & Incense. It is a role she adores, and she plays it to the hilt. At close to 60, she moves with supersonic speed. She doesn't walk, she strides; she doesn't talk, she broadcasts. She surrounds herself with the calculated and the outlandish, paints her Manhattan office walls adulterous red, covers the floor with simulated leopard skin, burns incense through the day. She invents cliches and talks in capital letters, whether dismissing a contender for the best-dressed ranks ("On her, EVERYTHING looks like a chandelier") or praising a swatch of material ("I ADORE that pink...
Despite his disagreements with Stevenson, Kennedy must back him to the hilt if he wishes him to be effective in the United Nations. There is little evidence that the President wishes to get rid of Stevenson. He has had nothing but praise for the Governor's performance in the U.N. Contrary to the allegations of Alsop and Bartlett, Stevenson contributed to the successful outcome of the Cuban showdown: he supported the arms blockade and opposed an invasion of Cuba at the risk of nuclear war. Stevenson never advocated a swap, as he did on October 27. On Stevenson's advice...