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...village, the movie shows the adventures of a madman in the distorted way a madman might see them. The adventures are not explained but only magnified for the expressionist settings in which the material things are emotional adornments, parts of a state of mind. Cesare's body leans with the lean of a crooked chimney, Caligari appears to grow out of his tent. The wild windows like kites, roofs that look like knives, and the black and white strips across the institution's floor reinforce the uneasiness. But these devices, like the shadows painted on the scenery...
...given names, Dorothy Virginia Margaret), 28, announced that she will soon up her posing rate from a classy $60 an hour to a classier $75. Reason: just like a baseball player, Dovima, a onetime $30-a-week candy counter girl, really wants her golden years to pay off. Lean, long Dovima sighed a prediction: "Photographers still like us as long, lean and thin as ever for fashion. But I think they are looking for a more natural, happy look instead of the gaunt, hard look that prevailed for so long...
...socialism looks like. If you don't obey, we'll crush you" (TIME, Oct. 29). Now, as Gomulka stepped out, the trace of a smile on his thin lips, Khrushchev and Premier Bulganin, plump as penguins in their astrakhan greatcoats and caps, waddled forward to pump the lean Gomulka's hand...
...expenses) shows promise of developing into an executive post of potentially immense power. Partly, this is a matter of impersonal historic forces-among them the tendency of a frightened legislature to yearn for a strong executive; partly, it reflects a U.S. decision to put its weight behind (or to lean against) the U.N. But partly, the expansion of power reflects the personal confidence which Hammarskjold has inspired...
...lean and attractive, and sporting a yard-long pony tail, she explains something of herself as she entertains her audience. She stems from a long line of show people, went on the road with her Italian-comedienne mother as a dancer at the age of five. Caterina is the youngest of four children, was born in Paris where the family now makes its comfortable home. There, after World War II, Caterina began to exploit her pretty voice, learned the American jazz style from recordings by Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters and Billie Holiday. By 1952, Caterina had married a German juggler...