Word: nose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is the trace of the fighter in the face of Donald Regan, the urbane stockbroker polished by the Cambridge Latin School and Harvard. But nevertheless there are the wary eyes, the cleft chin, the crooked nose. It goes even deeper. Inside there are the battle traces from Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Guam and Okinawa. He admits it. "No training for anything except fighting," he says, recalling 1946, when he left the Marines to take on Merrill Lynch. He won that engagement too, rising to the jobs of president in 1968, chairman in 1971. Now he is sitting in the large, sunny...
...really bothered to use or learn his first name: Students and teachers alike called him simply "Lippert." Even his parents sent mail to "Lippert." Standing a stocky 5-ft., 8-in., with wispy medium-length blonde hair wire-framed glasses and a long flattened nose he didn't look too unusual. Nor did his soft-spoken voice seem strange except for its eerie detachment...
...that defense! How'd he get those guys to play the same swarming, aggressive, steal-the-game-from-under-your-nose defense he taught at Memphis State...
Pantuzzi: He's been kissing ass so long, he wipes his nose with toilet paper...
...recollections. "Texture could be retained despite sudden, violent movement." The book includes a fair number of famous Mili pictures doing just that: his own version of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase; the 37-mm cannon shell stopped at one-millionth of a second as it leaves the nose of a fighter plane; Pitcher Carl Hubbell's arm and hand caught in the act of committing a knuckle ball; Ballerina Nora Kaye transformed into a tornado of multiple images during a pas de bourrée; Pablo Picasso holding a penlight in his darkened studio, carving a picture...