Word: dorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which balls of various size talk to each other (a pingpong ball will say to a golf ball: "Mabel, you've really got to give up sweets"). A lanky (5 ft. 11½ in., 170 Ibs.) man with a face like a TV portrait of Dorian Gray, Douglas privately fights a hopeless battle against his reputation as a way-out zany, claims he is just an ordinary, well-adjusted gag writer. He admits having surrounded his former Hollywood home with a steel Cyclone fence and forbidding signs saying "Northridge Lion Farm," but he denies shooting at low-flying aircraft...
...frets about being half-Jewish but whose physique is as firm as her psyche is wobbly. Lila is one of the zombi women who people modern fiction; she exists to do Tom's will. Tom himself plays zombi to Chris Hunt, a kind of ex-G.I. Dorian Gray who "tinkers with machines and people" and usually cracks up both...
...Racer de Portage's mother, Olga Martin-Montis, holder of the De Portago purse strings, is fond of her grandson, reportedly wishes to adopt him herself. All for keeping the boy and wangling from Olga a settlement on him is Kim's mother, onetime famed U.S. Model Dorian Leigh, 36, jilted last year by the marquis (long estranged from U.S.-born wife) after he ran afoul of the charms of much-traveled Cinemactress Linda (The Happy Time) Christian...
...moves in sensuous counterpoint between "beauty, cruelty, voluptuousness and suffering, all equally delicious." What is not delicious about Hélène and what finally destroys her relationship with Jean is her feral determination to belong only to herself. Outwardly unmarred but inwardly depraved, she is a female Dorian Gray. But even with an unbeautiful soul, the game of love is scarcely over at 18, and with her penchant for sequels, Author Mallet-Joris may yet salvage Hélène in time to win some future match...
...crown of his cap Were the Furies and Fates And an excellent map Of the Dorian States; And in both of his palms They discovered What is common in palms-That is, dates...