Word: misshapen
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...head, in this case, is that of Henri Berthaud, Wartime Premier of France, which an army officer deposits on a lawyer's table in the opening scene. It then develops that the officer, misshapen, ugly and half mad, had made Henri Berthaud Premier by writing his speeches, editing his newspaper. Afraid of the world because of his deformities, he had injected his personality into Berthaud's handsome person, for which Berthaud had repaid him by stealing his pretty wife. Finding Berthaud in his bedroom, he had chopped off his head with a glittering bayonet...
...painting, such as it is, depicting three dancing burlesque girls wholly lacking in form and beauty (one slightly cross-eyed and all ugly, fat, misshapen and sensuous) is a misnomer of its title. Remember, burlesque has done no harm to art. Why should art attempt to harm burlesque?" The Minskys asked $50,000 damages...
...been rehearsed until they were practically free from amateurisms. Jack (at the premiere Soprano Mary Katherine Akins) was believably young but not too cute; the giant (Raymond Middleton) blustered as a giant should. The cow's big scene occurred on the road to market, against a background of misshapen stars. Basso Roderic Cross filled out her front legs, did the philosophizing. The silent hindquarters, unmentioned on the program, were Student Warren Lee's. He maneuvered the eloquent tail-switching, the quizzical lift of a hip which matched such lines as these...
...strange misshapen houses of which Barcelona is so proud were close shuttered and dark last week. No lights twinkled in the sloping Plaza Catalonia. Under the plane trees the boulevards were silent except for the clop-clop of cavalry patrols making their rounds and the sudden roar of an armored...
...suit every taste: a tropical pool; two Alpine gardens complete with rocks and running brooks; Japanese gardens with twisted pine trees, thatch-roofed tea houses. All week long crowds of curious Easterners milled about the desert garden of Robert F. Manda where more than 1,000 varieties of weird misshapen cacti were growing in sand and rocks. Fourth day of the show the crowd grew even thicker. The "Crown of Thorns," a rare silver-grey prickle bush brought from Palestine by Cactus-grower Manda 25 years ago, had suddenly burgeoned with dozens of brilliant red flowers. Only once in three...