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Niles cast his spell as much with his introductions and manner as with his singing. There is a bit of Barnum in him; no, a big hunk of Barnum. Woven in with this is a strain of the hillbilly preacher. And over these basic characteristics floats the unmistakable, delightful smell...
...Which produced the largest piece of marble ever cut by man-a zoo-ton hunk that was trimmed to make the 56-ton topping of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington, Va. Other structures made of Marble marble: the Lincoln Memorial, the Los Angeles Athletic Club, the San Francisco, Cleveland and Denver city halls, Manhattan's Municipal Building, and Chicago's telephone building...
...their brows at an open manhole from which floated the ball-game scores. Chinese listeners in San Francisco may soon-if the electronic wrinkles are ironed out-watch the video version of Gunsmoke while their radios blast out a Cantonese translation, courtesy of a local radio station. "Grab a hunk of sky," mouths Marshal Matt Dillon from the TV screen. "Ghur sao chiu tin" rasps radio's Cantonese cowpoke...
...Germans; the equivalent of ?80 million sterling and 50,000 men from Italy). Later, Hitler could never induce Franco to give him houseroom in World War II. And on the face of it, Stalin was the loser on his investment of ?88 million sterling. But Stalin got a great hunk of Spain's gold reserve, and-in addition to the preparation for future political maneuvers-Stalin achieved his greatest triumphs of Communist propaganda, doublethink in action. "War for Peace" was his gimmick. It was not in vain that George Orwell fought in Spain. He served with the POUM...
...legs that have earned him the Milan nickname of "Golden Calves" ("I just love Franco," says Leontyne Price. "He has such gorgeous legs"). Moreover, the golden calves support a 6 ft. 2 in., 180-lb. frame and a classically handsome head that qualify Corelli as the best-looking hunk of tenor now singing.* In his Met debut he demonstrated that he also has a voice. Somewhat tight at the beginning of the evening, it loosened up and reached explosive power as the acts rolled on. If Corelli proved to be a limited actor of the smite-the-brow school...