Word: tallness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made a watercolor copy of it, having decided to use it in the background of the cover design. Then, working together, the Hurds produced a painting that, in many respects, presents the same picture that Writer Ronald Kriss's cover story paints of President Lyndon Johnson: a tall man under a very tall...
...that won't steal the country blind. Rather than trying to polish Tshombe's ineradicably tarnished image through hopeful half-measures, Brussels and Washington would do better sending him increased logistic and material support. After all, Mike Hoare's small band of "white giants" cannot stand tall forever...
...President arrived at ten in the afternoon. At the airport to greet him were his able Vice President (who combines the baleful glare of Sonny Listen with a Groucho Marx mustache) and the fat, 5-ft.-tall head of the Youth League (who wears mammoth gold stars and carries his money in bulging sacks). During his stay the President was entertained by native dancers who balanced pickaxes, shovels and barrels of mortar on their heads. He supped on cherry pop and sponge cake while solemnly touring a gallery hung with photographs of Mao Tse-tung, Lenin and Lyndon Johnson...
...evolvement of MCA from stars' agent to stars' employer has not materially affected the way in which Wasserman runs the company. It begins with personality. He is an austere man, tall and gaunt, with a pale complexion and large, deep-set eyes. He never makes a public speech, and his considerable sense of showmanship never manifests itself in flamboyance on his own part. He wears black suits, black ties, and a white shirt. It is no real accident that MCA's new skyscraper is black, its interior walls are white and, by decree, unadorned with pictures...
...there was a Lang film called Fury in which an innocent boy is suspected of abducting another little girl and almost gets hanged (from a tall tree?). Only in 1943 did Lang come close to solving his problem by acknowledging his intense mother love and symbolically murdering himself as his guilt feelings dictated. It was a film about a perfect heroine and it was entitled Hangman...