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Next day the Daily Mirror's irrepressible columnist, Cassandra, described Liberace as "this deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, scent-impregnated, chromium-plated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavored, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother-love" and declared that "he is the summit of sex-the pinnacle of Masculine, Feminine and Neuter . . ." The Sunday Pictorial ran a story headlined MY LOVELY BOY, by "Momma Liberace," and printed a picture made up half of his face, half of hers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Liberace & the Nonbelievers | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...followed the voice into Mrs. Nate Parker's Body Mechanics class, one of Radcliffe's favorite ways of satisfying Physical Education requirements. We discovered a small room, whose pink walls were sprinkled with neuter anatomical charts that compensated in bulging muscles for what they lacked in personality. On the floor were ten silver-grey plastic mats, occupied by ten girls in neat white blouses and neat blue shorts. They were learning "The Art of Relaxation" and "The Correction of Posture Faults." We had missed the relaxing session that opens each class, but we had arrived in time for the metatarsal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Sound Mind... | 3/9/1956 | See Source »

...recording studio everything is ready: bare walls, hard chairs and rattling music racks, all neuter in a thin fluorescent light. But as Sinatra stands up to the mike, tie loose and blue palmetto hat stuck on awry, his cigarette hung slackly from his lips, a mood curls out into the room like smoke. He begins to sing, hips down and shoulders hunched, hands shaping the big rhythms and eyes rolling with each low-down line. The musicians come to life, the wallbirds start to smile and weave with the very special sound that is Sinatra. Instead of the old adolescent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Kid from Hoboken | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

Impassive:emotion: 1-fatigued: sleep 2-ambiguous: meaning 3-neuter-gender 4-impartial: prejudice 5-ambivalent: decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Testing Service Now Aids All of U.S. Education | 4/20/1954 | See Source »

Impassive:emotion: : 1-inert:motion 2-ambiguous:meaning 3-neuter-gender 4-impartial:opinion 5-ambivalent:decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Testing Service Now Aids All of U.S. Education | 4/20/1954 | See Source »

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