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...Democratic Party stands in Chicago as a slightly aging Robin Hood with a paunch and a double chin, still bold and confident, but worried about the changing facts of life in Sherwood Forest...
Author Linklater swings no heavy sword himself; he is much too urbane to cleave an enemy to the chin. The result is a very amiable foray, with a lot more laughter than serious bloodshed...
...Candidates should sit on the edge of their chairs to remove the temptation to slump. If they must get up, they are urged "to move slowly to allow the camera time to follow." They are particularly cautioned to "throw your shoulders back and keep your head high and your chin out . . . Always keep your back straight...
Illustrious Name. The actual party leaders are no fiery Mussolinis but a couple of unexciting Fascist wheelhorses: Giorgio Almirante, head of the five-man M.S.I, bloc in the Chamber of Deputies, a thin, drab man with ferret eyes and a receding chin which he remembers to thrust out periodically; Secretary Augusto de Marsanich, who dotes on being remembered as one of the original squadristi who ''marched" on Rome...
...have seen her between the Bastille and the Porte St. Denis, and in the steamboat from Honfleur to Havre; her head is the perfection of Norman beauty; a superb high forehead, blond cendré [ash-blond] hair, an admirable and faultless little nose, blue eyes not quite big enough, chin narrow but a little too long; her face is a perfect oval and one can only take exception to her mouth, which has somewhat the shape and the turned-down corners of a pike...