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...blue-grey hues. When O'Toole isn't reminiscing, he is bedding or about to bed Romy, a Crazy Horse stripper (Paula Prentiss), a groundling nymphomaniac (Capucine) or a nymphomaniac who descends by parachute (Ursula Andress). Sellers dresses up his cliche role with a pageboy wig and temper tantrums and is funnier than his costars, who play their parts as if for their own amusement...
Hunters have a habit of excusing the rhino's evil temper (he's nearsighted) and the rogue elephant's murderous charge (he probably has a toothache). But hardly anybody has a good word for the shark. On any coastline, the cry "Shark!" is guaranteed to produce 1) instant panic in the local chamber of commerce, and 2) a sudden boom in swimming-pool sales. Sailors blaze away at passing sharks with rifles and shotguns, ichthyologists denounce them as witless garbage disposals, and many a fisherman disgustedly reels in his bait at the first glimpse of a triangular...
...Fought Back." In his weeks of patient, plodding work on the bill, Morgan only once lost his temper. That was after Arkansas Democrat William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, urged that economic and military aid be handled as separate bills. The Administration sent Morgan a 68-page draft that went at least part way toward appeasing Fulbright. To Morgan, that was murder: he was convinced that many Congressmen would seize upon separate bills as an opportunity to kill economic aid altogether. "I fought back," he says. "I told the President point-blank that the day you take...
After a few months in this "Bastille of steel," the child developed a violent temper and symptoms of neurasthenia-whenever she heard a piece of displeasing music, she quietly vomited. But she also developed a precocious passion to become "a genius"-if possible, a poetic genius. In 1923, riots attended her first public recitation of a clamjamfry called...
...incomplete. Sometimes, although not as often as critics allege, it is deliberately misleading. This is an exasperating but thoroughly predictable practice. I think a reporter should expect the Government to gold-plate what it tells him, and assume it is his job to do what he can to temper it. The practical solution would seem to be to attend the briefings, regard them as a reportorial starting point, then go out and crosscheck. Certainly, that is the way the best correspondents in Viet Nam function...