Word: trimmings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Diana Menuhin was not exaggerating. More like an Olympic sprinter in training than a 48-year-old violin virtuoso on tour, Yehudi Menuhin stays religiously in trim with yoga and health foods. Not that he is in any danger of getting fat. The busiest, fastest-moving musician on the international festival circuit, Menuhin has performed in some 50 concerts from Tel Aviv to Glasgow this summer, has also fulfilled a dizzying round of recording, teaching and conducting engagements. The crescendo comes each year in June and August, when Menuhin presides over two top-notch festivals, at Gstaad in Switzerland, which...
...incredibly self-disciplined. Her skin is clear and abloom, and she has the figure of a teen-ager (5 ft. 4 in., 114 lbs.), but she is no glamor girl. Her nose is a bit too long,.her mouth a bit too wide, her ankles a bit less than trim, and she is not outstanding at clotheshorseman-ship. She has a voice something like a brassy low note on a trumpet, and she speaks in a twanging drawl; friends comes out "frayans," affairs are "affa-yahs," hogs "hoags...
...republic's history that its head of government had visited the place-Khanh set the locals agog. Elegant in camouflage-pattern combat fatigues, he strolled down a sandy street, chatted with a crowd, asked a dumfounded schoolgirl, "Did you pass your exams?"-and drew cheers of "Hoan ho trim tuong [Hail to the general...
Then he flew off to the seaside town of Da Nang to celebrate South Viet Nam's Air Force Day. Trim F-1OOs lined the runway as several score of Vietnamese pilots plus three U.S. aviators were decorated with the Medal of Gallantry with Gold Wings. At the nearby base hospital, Taylor passed out Purple Hearts to two wounded Americans and stopped to chat with a sergeant who had jumped with him over Normandy on D-day 20 years...
...opinions are as trim and sharp as she is. Her two-word review of Irving Shulman's biography of Jean Harlow was: "Shocking puce." Her general code is: "You should be vicious only if you have something to be vicious about." And-regardless of whether it is called gossip or opinion-she sees no reason not to be vicious about actors if she wants to be. "I don't think actors have any right to private lives," she says. "If they want to have privacy, they shouldn't be actors. I don't like cowards...