Word: urchin
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...relatively minor actors also gave outstanding performances--Jean Weston as the prim and vicious governor's wife and Robert P. Youngsberg as the loutish corporal. Brecht displayed his discretion in not giving the little prince any speaking lines, and Mr. Hancock displayed his in choosing a beautiful urchin to play the role...
...Saarland coal miner who was a German wrestling champion. Hary began serious training at the age of 14. By 1958 Hary was the European champion, but he had won few personal admirers along the way. Says West German Track Boss Dr. Max Danz: "He was a little urchin, a tough kid and a little loudmouth." Hary cockily dispensed with a coach: "I've been raised to stand on my own two feet and can take my fate into my own hands." In time, Hary's starting reflexes came to have as delicate a hair trigger as his temper...
...fragrant colors could bubble with humor or sing with sadness. A drunkard tipsily shows off his strength by weight-lifting a barrel; two men get happily looped on a sake binge; a maiden frowns over a sour note she has struck while tuning her samisen; a ragged little urchin sits perched in a tree while majestic Mount Fuji soars incongruously in the distance. Under Hokusai's brush, Japan emerges as more than a floating land of stylized ritual: he had learned the secret he did not expect to know until he was no, when "every dot and every line...
...water ballet pas de deux in the Blue Grotto. But this foolishness does not occur until fairly late in the film, and what precedes it is noisy, cheerful and frequently funny. A good part of the reason is a nine-year-old rowdy named Marietto, who plays an Italian urchin and clowns well enough to deserve two names...
...macaronic idiom, "because thees painting represent le dream of Columbus, and youth ees le time for dreams. Other figures are monks and sailors qui come along weeth Columbus." Modestly he adds that the monk completely hidden in his cowl is actually a self-portrait. The giant sea urchin in the foreground represents "le real shape of le earth as discovered by le American Satellite Explorer Two" (actually, Vanguard Beta). In his dream, Dali's young Columbus meets not Indians but symbols of past and future. He is greeted by a transparent Saint Narcissus, whose body is formed partly...