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...Walter Irvin was not dead. In the hospital, his neck and chest bandaged, a rubber tube in one nostril, Walter Irvin told a different story: "The sheriff and the deputy began talking on the radio a little bit. [The sheriff] told him to go ahead and check and so the deputy sheriff went on a short ways in front of us and says, 'O.K.' . . . The sheriff began to shimmy his wheel and said, 'Something is wrong with my left front tire...
Posthumous portraits are among the toughest commissions artists get. Today they work from photographs of the subject, but posed photos are apt to miss the revealing gesture or the characteristic turn of lip, nostril or eyelid that painters look for. El Greco, with only a rigid mask for a starting point, made a virtue of his difficulty. Cardinal Tavera's imagined hand, with its long tapering fingers, and his dark, luminous, meditative eyes perhaps have more of the painter himself than of the cardinal about them; they reappear in most of El Greco's works. But they intensify...
Tommy Dorsey, trombonist, swung on Jon Hall, beautiful, bronzed cinemactor. Hall's doctor said that Hall ended up with a broken nose, cut nostril, stabbed neck, sliced head and face, requiring 50 stitches all told. Bystanders reported that Dorsey was joined in the melee by three other men. Scene: Dorsey's Hollywood apartment. Ostensible cause: Hall embraced Dorsey's wife, Actress Pat Dane...
...passionate eloquence of St. Augustine (whom Mumford compares to "the wild eye and the snorting nostril of the stallion in heat") "degenerated" through the ages into the logical but lifeless dida tics of Descartes, Spinoza, Locke...
Modified to pack a 75-mm., the B-25 has a sinister look. There is no plexiglass in the nose, only a smooth metal face with one angry, flaring nostril, from which the gun muzzle protrudes. The gun is mounted low on the left, fired by the pilot at the right. It is fixed, aimed by pointing the plane. The 20-lb. shells are loaded manually...