Word: paleness
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...acceptable silhouette, assembled on deck while the officers poked into every recess of three destroyers (the U.S.S. Hollister, Isbell and Knox). In a steel locker near the after stack of the Hollister, an officer found the stowaway: blue-eyed, barefooted, 24-year-old Elizabeth D. Talk, rigged in pale blue pedal pushers and a well-filled blouse...
...reds in Renoir's portrait of Mme. Henriot (opposite) are sonorous indeed, make a rich foil for her pale flesh and paler costume. He used to say that all he asked of a model was "a skin that takes the light," but the portrait shows that Renoir could rise to and convey beauties of personality as well as those of flesh alone. His bronze study of Mme. Renoir nursing their son (right) goes beyond flesh and personality alike to celebrate an ever-recurring and ever-moving relationship...
Vivien Leigh's Lady Macbeth was not so kindly received. The Observer found her performance "more niminy-piminy than thundery-blundery, more viper than anaconda." But the Times found that her "pale and exquisitely lovely Lady Macbeth does at least explain why Macbeth married her, a mystery that too many Lady Macbeths leave unelucidated...
...Lover Famishes. If there was a love in Harriette's hectic life he was Lord Ponsonby, elegant, pale, "the handsomest man of his time." The wily huntress trapped him, held him three years. She claims to have torn up a letter in which he pledged her a life income of ?200, and she has only soft words for him in her Memoirs. After 15 years, she wrote her friend Lord Byron: "Don't despise me; nothing Lord Ponsonby has dearly loved can be vile or destitute of merit...
...looked like a professor of geology who has suddenly been swept up in a reception for Danny Kaye. Anastas Mikoyan, First Deputy Premier, who followed him from the plane, was dark and sour, an Armenian rug merchant unsure of his sucker. First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Andrei Gromyko, pale and drawn, stayed behind...