Word: nose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plump, genial figure with the trademark family nose. Don Nixon is a businessman of varying interests who can win friends and influence people not by dropping a name but by bearing...
Enactment of the development plan -which makes it appear less and less likely that Israel will ever voluntarily surrender any part of the occupied territories-has profound international implications. In fact, the Secretariat vote was not inspired by any spirit of nose-thumbing defiance toward the U.N. or the Arab world, but by Labor Party fears about the outcome of next month's general election. Although Labor has ruled throughout Israel's 25-year history, it has never commanded an absolute majority in the 120-member Knesset (Parliament). The charismatic Dayan, who is somewhat more popular with...
...pencil and mysterious as an Ingmar Bergman heroine. By those standards Hutton seemed to be in the wrong game. She is only 5 ft. 7½ in.-slightly below average for a mannequin. Worse, by her own rather exaggerated reckoning, she has a "lopsided face, crossed eyes, a bumpy nose, and a Huckleberry Finn gap between my front teeth." When Photographer Richard Avedon first saw her, he wrote her off as not having enough "intensity." He thought she was too much like "a Florida type on water skis - just another pretty girl...
...exceeded only by his guile. Now it turns out that his uncle and legal guardian, Robert Lange, founder of a ski-equipment firm called the Lange Co., taught him all he knew. In a letter to the derby director in Boulder, Lange said not only that the magnetic nose "has been around for years" but that he had to urge it on his nephew because so many others were cheating too. "Anyone participating in derby races with eyes and ears open would soon learn, as I did, that rules have been consistently and notoriously violated by some participants without censure...
Midler has been compared to everything from Dorothy Parker in drag to the entire chorus line of beruffled hippos in Fantasia, and she shows traces of a dozen other singers: Streisand's nose and extraordinary head tones, Garland's saturation emotions and devoted homosexual following, Fanny Brice's waifish vulnerability, Joplin's floozy eleganza in attire and her tendency to egg audiences on to hysteria. But Miss M's secret is that she is not really like those others: she is acting like them. "I just try to have a good time...