Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sally Rand, septuagenarian fan dancer, when asked after a recent performance whether she really wears nothing beneath her ostrich plumes: "It doesn't much matter. The Rand is quicker than...
...least we are thankful it is not some of the others." In Little Rock, Ark., Bishop Andrew J. McDonald heard the news from a priest and was forced to look up Luciani in a church directory. The rapid decision, quipped the bishop, "just shows that the Holy Spirit is quicker than the speed of light...
...eternal optimist. I'm a positive thinker." And, of course, he will be using his new technique on the greens, ignoring the fact that smooth putting strokes are like fickle women−here today, gone tomorrow−and the older a man gets, the quicker they go. Gary Player would not let an unpositive thought like that enter his mind...
...directors, and that ending falls very flat. It is simply too long and too overacted. Because the tension snaps when the murderer is revealed, the rather contrived ending is out of place, and instead of dragging it out, as the directors do, the lights should almost immediately fade. A quicker ending would keep the audience speculating on the trick solution...
...with Hand Cart, 1975, and the only thing that demonstrates the wrinkles and veins are not real aged flesh is the figure's immobility. Astutely, Hanson generally reinforces the illusion by preventing the figure's eyes from meeting one's own-nothing gives the game away quicker than a glass eye that cannot blink. His work belongs in the context of photorealist painting, but it incorporates more illusions than painting can. The great period for waxworks was the 17th to 18th century, when the favorite court artist of the next-to-last Medici, Cosimo...