Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lady's handbag, and Sandburg talked freely. At fourscore and five years, says he, "I don't go around telling people how to live long. My advice reduces itself to this: watch out about stumbling into a coal hole, and-it's always safer to walk upstairs than down...
...picture is to watch the changes-not as they came over her, but as they were effected upon her by all the faceless image molders who, in the end, made the Pygmalion of legend seem by comparison a mass of clumsy thumbs. Under close and improving direction, her famous walk developed from something crudely virginal into something profanely sophisticated. Some unknown Corot reduced the red of her lips from a massive smear to a spot in a breathtaking landscape. Her hair, sprayed and sculpted a thousand times, softened down into a pangloss of wishful thinking, making nature say uncle...
Bernhardt to the Rescue. It was on Dec. 26, 1894, that 34-year-old Alphonse Mucha, shaggy-haired and bearded, got his big break in Paris. He had learned to draw before he could walk, and his mother used to tie a necklace of crayons around his neck so that he could exercise his talent whenever he wanted. But for all that talent and for all his study, Mucha was getting nowhere. Then, out of the blue, Actress Sarah Bernhardt came to the rescue. She urgently needed a new poster to advertise her new play. The theater manager telephoned...
...demoralized diplomats are all for pulling out when the fireworks begin, but Ambassador Niven-gnawing his mustache to denote deep thought-counsels them to stay put, walk softly and hope for the best. Soon hordes of murderous Boxers swarm over the compound, knifing, shooting, burning. Imperial Chinese troops join the attack after the Dowager Empress (Dame Flora Robson in plastic eyelids and black contact lenses) darkly observes: "China is a prostrate cow. The foreigners are not content to milk her, but must also butcher her." Ava goes to work in the hospital like a Pekinese Scarlett O'Hara, pawning...
...currently the names of three cardinals in the breast of Pope John. Said Kiril to his brother princes: "I have spent the last 17 years in prison. If I have any rights among you. let it be that I speak for the lost ones, for those who walk in darkness and in the valley of the shadow of death...