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...addition to lighting effects, pantomime by the actors will also be used to replace the scenery. This will make the audience lean forward and think out what is happening instead of sitting back and drinking it in, according to the RDC director...
...believe that those who can count more dogs among their friends than cats," wrote Actor James Mason in a felicitous thesis for the New York Times, "lean more also toward doglike characteristics in their human friends. They like hearty extraverts and children-people, in fact, who wag their tails and bark...
...does not make his appearance until the last third of the book. Bemelmans' rich sweetness carries the story along without the pig, winning the reader through a kind of hypnotic mastery. Witness the very beginning of "Dirty Eddie": "'Believe me," she said, "I know how to do it. Lean forward, darling.'" A few lines later you are disappointed, and yet delighted, to discover that she is curing him of hiecoughs...
Amid the protective coloration of Manhattan's midtown hotels, the polyglot parliamentarians became as invisible as so many native New Yorkers. There were some exceptions. At the Waldorf-Astoria, Saudi Arabia's lean, bearded Prince Feisal could be seen plainly as he whispered with Iraq's jumpy Fadhil Jamali, surrounded by a bodyguard packing gold swords and blue-steel .453. The Servant of God and Sword of Islam, Abdullah Saif, would cool his heels in luxurious comfort at the Sherry-Netherlands while the Assembly debated the admission of his tiny state of Yemen...
...soap-opera actor -but that is a far cry from being a movie matinee idol. Gone is the famous 23-foot Marmon with his name in solid gold on the door. He can no longer afford to pass out $100 tips to waiters. His hair is white, and the lean, taut jaw line once beloved by millions of women has run to jowls. "At 64," booms Francis Xavier Bushman, "my energies are somewhat-ah-shall we say, mellowed, but my profile is unimpaired...