Word: stunted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dors & Drawers. From Aberdeen to Bath, boys cracked jokes that the Opies trace to Queen Anne's day. Girls cured warts by rubbing them with lard and then burying the lard (a method described by Francis Bacon). They performed a levitation stunt that once fascinated Samuel Pepys. They still believe that reciting the Lord's Prayer backwards makes the Devil appear, and like the Elizabethans, seldom dare...
Renouncing Babbitry for Babel, Gertrude Stein was a kind of saint to some and a stunt to others. She belongs not to the ages, but an age-the '20s. Fresh from his last safari (Dylan Thomas in America), Poet-Critic John Malcolm Brinnin goes in search of this Abominable Snowoman of modern letters. What he brings back is not startling, but it is a biographically complete if critically indulgent account of the concentric odyssey of Gertrude Stein, of whom it might be said: in her beginning was her end, because she was all middle...
...closeups, but directors are leary of such heroics. So far in 51 scraps, Stevens has had only one accident-a torn fingernail. Darren (Mike Hammer) McGavin has also had only one accident: a broken rib. Still, the producers prefer the standard technique of organizing camera angles so that stunt men can take over. (The stunt men get paid well; they can afford an occasional puffed lip.) The heroes must survive, pressed, currycombed and unscrambled.' for next week's case...
...tall, chrysanthemums that flower in spring instead of fall, poinsettias that bloom in June's heat instead of Christmastime cold. But these plant anomalies are manmade. For U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists have discovered the mysterious chemical in plants that regulates plant growth, have found that they can stunt trees at their pleasure, make flowers bloom when they choose...
Delighted that an ordinary publicity stunt had been blown up into a national sensation, United Artists fought the case. In a hearing last April, Post Office Examiner William A. Duvall upheld the ban. The Goya original, he conceded, "is a masterpiece, [and] nudity is not obscene." But Duvall argued that United Artists had sent out a poor reproduction. Said he: "It is a copy of a photograph which does not accurately depict that which it purports to show ... It is simply a color picture of a nude woman...