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...hand and tossed it toward the crowd. "Let's stop this disgusting thing henceforth," he said angrily. "I do not want to hear my own praise. I have no time for that sort of thing. I am interested in what you are doing." As the chairman slunk back to his chair, the astonished crowd muttered its approval. The story, told over and over again across India, was the kind that in the past has always brought Nehru not less, but more, hero worship...
...oeuvres. she was seen marching up to her suite with $50 worth of groceries in tow. She gave interviews from her bed, her hair like a black dustmop, her bag-rimmed eyes like the burning tips of cigars. Sometimes she actually lit up a small cigar and slunk about the room, her Magnanimous bosom heaving like a passionate surf as she flung out a flood of Italian. When informed that her first U.S. picture would be shown on widescreen, Magnani publicly sneered: "Poof! Widescreen!" When TV came with opulent offers, she recoiled: "Weel I have to hold a bowl...
Inge Borkh, 33, who sings at the Hamburg and Munich operas, may never be compared to a movie beauty, but her big, dramatic voice and commanding presence fascinated audiences. In the gruesome role of Salome, she slunk, crouched and snarled until it almost seemed as if she were going to bite off the head of John the Baptist before it was cut off for her, but at the end, she tamed her style, let the music have its say. Her singing was as compelling as her acting, her voice easily soaring out over Strauss's heavy orchestration...
...those days, he says. Algeria had a humid tropical climate like modern Central Africa. The dry hillside where the bones were hidden was a lake shore then, swarming with large and dangerous animals. Among them slunk the weak humanoids, armed with the first of the weapons that man had created. Perhaps they killed a few of the animals. Perhaps, like hyenas, they scavenged the kills of the powerful carnivora, using their fist-axes to crack the bones for the marrow inside...
...along the baseball umpire was a valuable if not always respected citizen. At worst he was a mainstay for cartoonists. At best he was a grand figure standing upright and strong as the pop bottles whomped off his chest protector, his arms folded and jaw set, as the players slunk to the showers and the managers fumed in their dugouts. His eyes were weak but his word was law and his wrath was a sight to behold...