Word: plumpness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well known to demand repeating. The picture, however, does bear seeing again, even for a third or fourth time. Robert Newton as a mad artist searching for a mysterious "dying look"; the elfin, almost intangible bird fancier who is overjoyed when he finds a "caged" human; and the plump, insidious informer in a flowered dress who slyly traps the unsuspecting rebels these and the others present a pageant that stands up with Bank's best. Hollywood should watch out lest some wayward Goalie breath blow down its neck and whisper that perhaps it, too, is not long for this world...
...plump Empress Dowager Sadako of Japan, who used to be known as "the Mother of God," became a working woman of a sort. Her job, the first of her life: president of the Japan Silk Thread Association...
Calumet Farm is as deep in reserves as a Notre Dame football squad. Besides Armed, its stars include a plump little filly named Bewitch, whose high hindquarters make her look as if she were walking downhill. Winner of eight straight races, she is still unbeaten, easily the No. 1 two-year-old of the year. Also on the first team: Fervent, who broke the track record in the $60,000 American Derby; Faultless, the winner of last spring's Preakness...
...Solution. Peron, who has no intention of falling anywhere, might plump for a tried-&-true Argentine solution: declaration of a state of siege or nationwide martial law. That way he could silence the opposition, give the Army, which has not fought a war in 75 years, a sense of directing public affairs...
...plump, periwigged sightseer was too excited to sleep; Edward Gibbon spent his first night in Rome waiting for dawn. When at last it came, Historian Gibbon recalled later, "I trod with lofty step the ruins of the Forum: each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Cicero spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye." Last week visitors to Detroit's Institute of Arts could see what Gibbon saw, as painted by his 18th Century contempo rary, Giovanni Paolo Pannini. The institute had just acquired Pannini's splendid, solemn View of the Colosseum...