Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slippery. In Houston, small-boned Frank Mullins told how last June he broke out of his death cell in Edinburgh jail: he dieted, greased himself with nose salve, slithered through a 12-inch hole and an 18-inch drainpipe...
...Nose, Swan Shoulders. One of the best canvases in the show was Modigliani's portrait of his mistress Jeanne Hebuterne (see cut), who, big with child, committed suicide by jumping from a fifth floor window, after Modigliani died. From her wide, red-skirted hips to the top of her brown hair, the artist had turned his mistress into a slow, serpentine spiral, given her an other-worldly beauty which would be horrible in real life. Like El Greco, Modigliani liked to stretch people out of human proportion. He graced Madame Hebuterne with the neck and shoulders of a swan...
...armed bodyguards, would parade the sidewalks, hawking the Nationalist Alianza, while their escorts ripped democratic emblems off the lapels of passersby. Last week the democrats were striking back. In brief, quick-breaking scrimmages they gave at least as good as they got, bloodied many a bully-boy's nose before the ubiquitous Perón police closed...
...York Times buried the story under a small head on page five. It also buried Dr. Armattoe in a real bit of down-the-nose, deadpan journalism. At the end of its story the Times said: "Dr. Armattoe, in his capacity as an anthropologist, was quoted in a London dispatch last April 29 as having said that brunettes 'in the main have more brains' than blondes...
...outcast Indian girl who is tormented and finally stoned by her self-righteous neighbors, Delores Del Rio is beautiful. She has been deglamorized to the point of allowing a mole on the side of her nose to be photographed, but even in Hollywood her well-modeled face was never lovelier or more expressive. Visual beauty is the best thing about Portrait of Maria, which is the sort of picture that looks better in the lobby stills than it does on the screen. There are handsome shots of Lake Xochimilco and some well-photographed, well-directed crowd scenes. The picture...