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...would be shaky to suppose he picked up the habit in a museum. By the same token, he may never have heard of Gustav Klimt or even Monet, but another section of Fantasia, the Pastoral, now looks like a shotgun marriage of the two, with Disney's plump, nippleless nymphs and plow-horse centaurs cavorting around the iridescent blooms and bubbles of a pond in Arcadia...
...plump, genial figure with the trademark family nose. Don Nixon is a businessman of varying interests who can win friends and influence people not by dropping a name but by bearing...
...heroine of Three Faces of Eve seem only mildly neurotic. As early as the age of three, Sybil began subdividing her personality, "dissociating" into other, utterly distinct characters. All had their own names, distinct vocabularies, accents and mannerisms. Vicky was gracious, self-assured, an attractive blonde. Mary was plump, quiet, with long brown hair, etc. Two of Sybil's other selves were boys who found it painfully confusing to have their residence in a woman's body...
Trouble is that Gaddafi's glowing vision of union is not quite matched in Egypt. On a recent high-pressure, two-week visit to Egypt to plump the plan, the Libyan leader discovered that his proposed partner had become recalcitrant, if not downright hostile. Everywhere he went, Gaddafi locked horns with the Egyptian intelligentsia, engaging in heated arguments on everything from Arab unity and Islamic tolerance to Libyan xenophobia. A nonsmoker and nondrinker, Gaddafi has closed all nightclubs and bars in Libya and restored the practice of amputations for thievery-measures which Egyptians hardly want to see extended...
Secretariat would eat anything he saw that resembled food. Inevitably, he got chubby, then more so, and it began to look as if he would be the plump kid on the block who never makes the team. He still has the appetite of the growing boy he is. A small race mare does well to eat 8 or 9 qt. of oats a day, and 12 qt. are a lot for an above-average male. Secretariat is what track people call a "good doer." He eats 16 qt., and between meals keeps his groom busy replenishing the supply...