Word: mule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afternoon femmitation." used his wife's byline in "memos" to himself that scorned "the newcomer to news ranks," who was "running around like she's just misplaced Rock Hudson." Maxine kept a disdainful public silence. "I'm like the fellow who was kicked by the mule," she said in private. "I just consider the source and forget...
...harelip, either drank up or gave away everything he made. He once traded a painting for a necktie, recently gave another for a pair of long-toed shoes. The transaction, he said, was "completely fair: they're like the shoes Charlie Chaplin used to wear." "A Beheaded Mule." Guignard owes his life-and much of his present success -to a dedicated physician named Santiago Americano Freire, who nursed him back to health from a nearly fatal case of the DTs. Dr. Americano got his patient a state pension of $100 a month, arranged most of his exhibitions, which...
...wringing their hands, as he walked past the pictures. Schubert, who believes that it is necessary to "police modernists," disapproved of Guignard's skyscraper cross, spear-bearing soldiers ("creatures from Mars") and the bloodied imprint of Christ's visage on Veronica's cloth ("a beheaded mule"). Then he delivered his decision: "I will tell the cardinal that these paintings can be consecrated...
...gold medal at Squaw Valley), West Germany and Sweden. A Canadian himself, Coach Armstrong coolly cites the lesson he learned during his career as a National Hockey League player: "The key to success in any athletics is recruiting. You can't make a race horse out of a mule. I simply go where the best hockey is played-in western Canada-and look for players with good brains...
...Magnificent Seven (United Artists) suggests that, after many a disappointment with Hollywood and television westerns, U.S. reviewers and distributors are so saddle-sore and range-blind that they cannot tell a ring-tailed snorter from a bucket-foot mule. Greeted by a flurry of inattention from the critics, this western has been hastily remaindered into the neighborhood circuits in the hope that it will soon get profitably lost in the Christmas rush. The loss will be bearable: Seven is not a great picture-not nearly as good as the Japanese Magnificent Seven (TIME, Dec. 10, 1956), the brilliant episode...