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...events, the Italians had placed one-two with new sleds of their own design (featuring knee-action front runners). It was beginning to look as if the famed Feierabend firm, which has produced Europe's best bobsleds for decades, had met its match at last. Lean-faced Fritz Feierabend had another strong motive for winning in the main, four...
...born Assen Peikov, a society portrait painter who affects a Mongol-style mustache; brunette Novella Parigini, a great friend of Errol Flynn's, who paints sexy calendar girls and looks like one; dignified, 70-year-old Giuseppe Carosi, who lives with his cats in a genteel Victorian apartment; lean, intense Communist Sculptor Nino Franchina, who does abstractions in metals...
...must the Anglican publications lean so heavily upon the crutch of criticism of Rome - especially if they do not have even an elemental understanding of Roman Catholic beliefs such as the place Mary occupies in Catholic dogma? . . . From some of their more recent railings, it seems their publications have degenerated into a hodgepodge of misguided attacks on certain facets of Catholic belief...
...President's proposed amendments are a compromise between what labor and management want. They lean to labor's side, but not nearly enough to satisfy labor leaders. Among the recommendations...
...whose decisions invariably prove fatal, has a grandeur which over-shadows the other principals. But the character has a distinct headstart, for alone of Julius Caesar's major roles, Brutus is free of the contradictions often unresolved in the other characters. Gielgud's Cassius, the perfect embodiment of "the lean and hungry look," is a fascinating mixture of virtue and venality. The same quality, however, is more obscure in the characters of Antony and Caesar. In the case of Antony, played by Brando with an undercurrent of sensual violence, the obscurity is increased by the sole episode which the film...