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...Julia Child's low-budget public TV series, the wine was faked with a mixture of water and Gravy Master. Graham guzzles the real stuff from a goblet throughout the program (in seeming violation of Article 3, Section 17 of the Broadcasters' Code). His other constant prop is an arch smirk. He prances onto the kitchen set the way Sugar Ray Robinson used to approach the ring, then pirouettes so that the tittering ladies in the studio audience can admire his costume du jour. He has 27 of them-black tie for a filet steak Washington, for example...
over fairly smooth ground. Through rough spots it is slower, but neither mud, sand nor grades as steep as 75% will stop it. In water, it cruises at 1½ m.p.h., propelled by its rotating wheels, or 5 m.p.h. with an optional prop. The open tubs, which form...
...Deterrent. The troops carried on. "The cold is no real bother," claimed Pfc. Timmy Sasser, 17, a mortarman from Dallas who was striving to erect a tent in -40°. Two companies of "aggressors," dropped by parachute, endured the equivalent of -175° F. as they hit the icy prop wash of their aircraft. But the cold was no deterrent to the paratroopers. Mushing ten miles on skis through deep powder snow at 53 below zero, dragging their survival kits on Ahkio sleds, 16 troopers pulled off a brilliant nighttime surprise attack on the headquarters of Brigadier General John...
...canvas. The reality that has to be created within those limitations is its own reality, the reality of the film, not the reality of people who just happen to walk in front of a camera. For what Cassavetes was trying to do, the most effective thing would be to prop a camera up and film an evening at Ken's Delicatessen...
Scandinavian tourists troop off the ferry with light portable ladders to prop against the high stone wall. Sheep Island is a long way from Stockholm, the wind is bitter, and the wall is high. But to them the object is worth the search-a glimpse of Bergman and what Swedes euphemize as his latest "little home companion." If they are lucky, they can see a brilliant glint of strawberry blonde hair and the planed face with its saddle of freckles and wistful smile...