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There were, at the minimum, two Alfred Hitchcocks. The "master of suspense" was pleased to be generally understood simply as a creator of elegant entertainments that stylishly, wittily induced the only anxiety attacks that a citizen of the Age of Anxiety could actually anticipate with pleasure. This image the rotund, British-born director shaped and nurtured almost as fussily as he did his films. In interviews he invariably doled out the same handful of childhood anecdotes and adult insights into himself, all reinforcing the notion of a person trying gamely to joke away a set of obsessions so common that...
Jones and Kleinman moved into an even more comfortable position--a seat in the jubilant Bruin dugout--when rotund Jay Hickey lashed a base hit into center, knocking two runs in and Harvard out of first place...
...them with a hand compass earlier this year, Dartmouth Geographer Vincent H. Malmstrom found that its needle was sharply attracted whenever he held it to the navel of some of the statues, the right temple of others. Reason: these parts of their anatomy were themselves magnets. More astonishing, the rotund figures are about 4,000 years old, 2,000 years older than the first evidence of Chinese experiments with magnetism...
...father (Michael Constantine), a surly merchant with unexplained psychotic tendencies. McNichol and Davison just do not have much to do; their scenes are sexless tableaux vivants, designed to illustrate the story's ample collection of humanitarian platitudes. Lest we miss the point, the proverbially wise and rotund black maid (Esther Rolle of Good Times) lectures the characters on the virtues of brotherhood. Add Director Michael Tuchner's fussy attention to period detail and lugubrious pacing and you have a truly endless Summer...
Most dowsers seem to like nothing better than to regale skeptics with their accomplishments. Clarence Hollett of Willow Shade, Ky., styles himself as "the Mr. Doodlebug." In the dowser lexicon, doodlebugs are a special breed - diviners for oil. Hollett, a rotund, barrel-chested man, says he has found wells that produce 1 ,000 bbl. a day and, if only he hadn't been swindled by so-called friends, he might be a millionaire. He also dabbles in healing and dowses for gold. "Don't believe me?" he asks, and promptly borrows a gold ring from a cynical listener...