Word: rotunds
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...park bench alongside the Thames sat the great director himself, holding a head that was a duplicate of his own. Actually the head will be used to carry on the Hitchcock tradition of including a shot of himself in each of his pictures; it belongs to a rotund dummy "victim" that will be found floating face up on the Thames in his 55th movie, Frenzy...
...eight weeks, the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee has held hearings on organized crime. A parade of witnesses, many of them for- mer mobsters, testifying with immunity, have sketched the outlines of gambling, theft and corruption on which crime empires are built. Last week big Vinnie Teresa, a rotund (300 Ibs.) loan shark now serving concurrent prison terms for stealing securities and car theft, provided a Runyonesque retrospective of his life and crimes...
...scene befitting a bad Khmer operetta. There in the dock were the children of the deposed god-king, on trial for their lives. The judge, a rotund man given to spasmodic eyeball rolling, was the same judge who a year earlier had condemned their father to death in absentia. At the end of each day's session, scores of the curious spectators who filled the drab, stifling courtroom would nervously make their way to the two defendants, many prayerfully clasping their hands before their faces in the traditional Cambodian gesture of respect...
...scramble for subleases, drilling rights and tips on new finds, Oneida has become the newest boomtown headquarters of the oil industry. Cadillacs and Lincolns with out-of-state license plates cruise the streets. D.B. Biglane, rotund in his checked suit, swoops in almost weekly from Natchez, Miss., in his rented DC-3. Like most visiting oilmen, he wheels and deals at Tobe's Motel and Restaurant. Owner Tobe Philips, who now drives a Cadillac himself, has nearly doubled his prices and started a 16-room addition. Across town, the B & Z Motel is putting up visitors in trailers...
...with the same sense of a sun-drenched idylotry as before. The Durrell mythology is broadened to include the story of how a foul-mouthed old sea captain proposed to Durrell's mother. One learns of "Gerry's" visit to Corfu's countess, a dotty and rotund old party who forced him to share a six-course lunch climaxed by a whole wild boar. There are inevitable references to the boat-scuttling yachtsmanship of Eldest Brother Larry (now better known as the author of The Alexandria Quartet...