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...winners. Yet he showed the same shot-making ability around the exquisitely manicured greens of Southern Hills that earned Tommy Bolt the championship there in 1958. One has to go back to the days of Leo Diegel to find a preeminent professional with such a knock-kneed and elbows akimbo stance...
...became, in effect, a kind of self-portrait without the self, with the slightly eerie aspect of a snake's shucked skin. The bathrobe in Dine's new paintings confronts the eye with a proprietorial air, the folds straight and columnar, the sleeves akimbo. The open V of the lapels gapes like a pair of garden shears. Against the odds, Dine has extracted a quite monumental presence from the floppy, unpromising substance of terry toweling...
...popping, mouth contortion and shredding of the vocal cords were qualifications for a comedienne, then Streisand would be the new Carole Lombard. But she has none of Lombard's ease of spirit, her giddy eccentricity or quick, akimbo intelligence. Streisand is only aggressive. She scrounges for laughs like a bargain-basement shopper...
With his androgynous visage, his arms akimbo, Jagger beckons to the repressed sexual urges in all of us, volunteers to take on the burden of our own sadistic and rebellious reveries; in return, we pay him lots of money and promise not to remember what he does. As long as he gives us a few concrete gestures, the rest doesn't matter; we'll extrapolate from there. His sulking, his mincing, the fluttering eves, the limp wrist are but touch-stones to the structure of our own imaginations. I don't know what happened in New York or the Boston...
...future book-burners) in class and to follow a strict regimen himself on the truck. Oskar Werner demonstrates with tight-lipped professionalism that the first place to look for a book is the toaster. He stands out against the brash red of the fire engine--black uniform, arms akimbo--like a medieval executioner. His domestic life is equally grim. His wife is preoccupied with the puppets and parrots on their mammoth television screen. The two live in that great monument to sterility: a mod house. Streamlined furniture done up in cool blues and decorator yellows. The warmth of stainless steel...