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...moment I started talking of imperialism, the bomb exploded." But he announced a police-state innovation, apparently long planned: a neighborhood spy system set up to "know who lives in each block and what he does." Off went a second bomb and Castro's smile grew wan. "Let us not underestimate the imperialist enemy," he said...
There are two self-portraits in the exhibit from 1914, one of the painter as Saint Sebastian (typical of Schiele's persecution complex), and the other an oil in which Schiele appears with deep-set eyes and a wan, bony countenance. As Death, he reaches out towards his model who shrinks away into the somber, slightly cubist background...
Wrangler (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). A new adventure series about a Western wan derer who, in the opening saga, rakes in a gambling pot that includes an Indian maid...
Weaver's King has a sombre majesty of such impressiveness that when Douglas says "I fear thou art another counterfeit;/And yet, in faith, thou bearest thee like a king," we nod in inward and compelled assent. His face bears the signs of his shaken age, "wan with care," and there is a poignancy to his recurring mention of his desire to embark on a Crusade that becomes near unbearable when the dying King asks to be carried to the Jerusalem Chamber: It hath been prophesied to me many years I should not die but in Jerusalem, Which vainly...
...week's end, a wan Nelson Rockefeller left Manhattan for a brief vacation at his Venezuelan ranch. To his rapidly growing file on practical politics, he could add another lesson learned: the best intentions of study groups, the most carefully drawn legislation, and even the best-laid political plans can be swamped in the tides of personal rivalry...