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...appear willful or mandatory." He was also a witty and truthful art critic, whose essays and journalism, collected in 1947 by Osbert Sitwell under the title A Free House!, are never dull and often possess a Shavian energy. Courageous to the point of eccentricity, Sickert always followed his own nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Music Halls, Murder and Tabloid Pix | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

...public with an exhaustive review of the tough choices on taxes and spending that face Clinton and the country. And it also allowed Clinton to present himself in a flattering light: attentive, whip-smart and lip-bitingly empathetic; the reading glasses perched soberly at the end of his bulbous nose lent a touch of presidential gravitas to his boyish looks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Professor Bill's Class: Political Economy 101 | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

...trademark elliptical phrases are also far more in evidence on this album, with oblique allusions in such lines as "Caligula would have blushed" ("Heaven Knows") and "I know how Joan of Arc felt as the flames rose to her roman nose and her Walkman started to melt ("Bigmouth Strikes Again...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: "...Best" Offers New Perspective On The Smiths | 12/17/1992 | See Source »

...described her attacker as a male, approximately 5' 11", "burly, with sandy hair, a straight nose, not particularly distinctive except for being very pale...[He was] wearing a sandy duffle coat...

Author: By Evan J. Eason, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: 29 Garden St. Resident Attacked With Razor | 12/15/1992 | See Source »

...half of the slope, I picked up speed as my group slid closer and closer to the bottom of the hill. Again and again I jammed my poles in the snow and pushed off with every erg of energy my sunken pectorals and triceps could produce. My nose, exposed, throbbed, but I didn't care because I was in motion...

Author: By Dante E.A. Ramos, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The First Time: Please Be Gentle With Me | 12/15/1992 | See Source »

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