Word: talled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from precocious childhood through audacious beginnings as an actor-director and finally to the status of cult figure to be wheeled in on special occasions, biographer Frank Brady reveals Welles as a thin man in which there was always a fat man trying to get out. Even as a tall, trim youth, Welles had gargantuan intellectual and physical appetites. It was not enough that he had prematurely grasped the concept that art was essentially an illusion, a magic show. He insisted on making his tricks as obvious as possible...
...what Los Angeles' Tom Bradley is turning out to be. The man the Wall Street Journal calls the "recumbent incumbent" has just been elected to a fifth term, squeaking by with a 52% majority against a weak field of opponents. With no strong challenger to smoke him out, the tall, quiet Bradley got away with something akin to a Rose Garden strategy. He granted few interviews and ran in part on a platform of "the most ambitious sewer-improvement project in the nation." On election night, he talked about a new literacy program, public works jobs, beautifying neighborhoods and household...
...Peter Ueberroth's rescue plan must clear some tall obstacles. -- Northwest flies into the combat zone as oilman Marvin Davis pushes an unwelcome...
...heart of Jamaica Plain lies a sprawling garden that is visited almost daily by wide-eyed apprentice gardeners who are generally under four feet tall...
Months before a show, Kelly is in high gear. Red sweat pants peeping from under the overalls, he sits high at his drafting table, drawing in deft strokes, crumpling up sketches one after another and sipping hot tea from a tall glass. Interruptions are constant. "No!" he barks, surveying a list of proposed models. "We need someone with de vraies fesses -- a real fanny." The sultry beauties who glower through most French fashion shows must learn to prance, dance, skip and even smile for Kelly's semiannual follies. He dismisses another candidate offhandedly: "Tell her she can do my show...