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Life as a Little Doll. From then on, Tormé patrolled the fringes of popularity, and from time to time slipped into downright obscurity. On the few occasions when he had to sing from center stage, he invariably fell victim to some quirk of personality that cost him friends, fans and jobs. His life, as even he tells it, began to sound like a punk's diary. "I didn't know the word for it then," he says, "but I can see now that I was defensive. I had a chip on my shoulder." To unload it, Torme...
...studies abroad cover the whole gamut of diseases and the agents that transmit them to man. At Osaka University Dr. Hideo Kikkawa has painstakingly bred 30 different mutant strains of houseflies to find out how some of them become resistant to insecticides. By a statistical quirk, Norway turns out to be the best place to compare the effects of different psychiatric treatments, including tranquilizers. The Oslo government has been keeping a register of mental illness cases since 1916, and its records are the world's best for a homogeneous, stable population. Among U.S. immigrants, and their descendants, from Mediterranean...
...told, 358 Cubans have hopped the fence into Guantánamo. A few of them have since slipped away by one means or another. The rest are still on the base, because of a legal quirk. The base commander, Rear Admiral Edward J. O'Donnell, has no authority to grant visas to the U.S., and even if he did have authority, the U.S. Cuban lease agreement of 1903 does not establish Guantánamo as a port of exit for Cuban citizens. Eager to give Castro no legal grounds for demanding annulment of the lease, which runs in perpetuity...
...only part of it. More important is the jump he gets by knowing precisely when to take off-at the instant the pitcher decides to throw to the plate. Most pitchers betray their decision by a subtle shift of their shoulders, a jerk of the head, or some other quirk. Wills knows, for example, that one Houston pitcher leans ever so slightly toward the plate just before he goes for the batter. "From the time he starts to lean to the time he goes into his delivery,'' says Wills, "I've taken two extra steps." He wastes...
...message is a powerful and significant one. But it is almost lost in the unparalleled wealth of obscenity that surrounds and even infiltrates it. Is the obscenity just a quirk that must be overlooked if one does not like it? Miller projects it with considerable vigor, and it seems rooted deeply in his personality. But again, it is not a debauched degeneracy; nor does he use it in a spirit of scorn and repudiation. It is of life generally, a matter of humor, neither malicious nor perverted. It is included because this too is a part of life that...