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...from blood to industrial oil by mixing them with laboratory reagents, measuring the resulting chemical change, and recording the results on adding-machine tape or computer cards. Now the company is beginning national distribution of a new shampoo-base hair coloring and this fall will introduce a line of facial makeup with three colors in one box so women can blend their...
...topped by a huge, sonorous fan-have found Ho ruddy-cheeked and cheerful. For a Communist boss, he has a lively sense of humor: once when Chou En-lai spoke in Hanoi, Ho sat on the stage beside the speaker, subtly aping Chou's every gesture and facial twitch, much to the audience's amusement-and Chou's puzzlement. As a carryover from his days of flight and subversion, he favors disguises, fooling even such close friends as Giap by merely rolling up his trousers to look like a country yokel...
...pupil, Beatrice Mathews showed a comic talent superior even to Montoya's. Seated next to the professor, casual and happy, she presented a picture of slightly stupid innocence. As her torture increased so did the variety of her facial and bodily expressions of boredom, pain and outrage. Her delivery, like Montoya's, was nuanced and fluent. This is especially important in performing Ionesco, since most of the playwright's humor is based on his genius for distorting or exaggerating the phrases and rhymes of everyday conversation...
...life is to beat his wife, pleads with his mentor, "Just once! Just once! Please, let me beat her! Abuse! Abuse! All I get is abuse!" In another scene, a member of Parliament, who dreams of becoming prime minister, is caught alone on the beach, practicing the gestures and facial expressions that will accompany the speeches he hopes to give in Parliament someday...
Italian is one language in which a deaf-mute is not completely lost. Every facial tic, every finger flick, means something. A thumb jabbed at the mouth: "Waiter, bring some wine." A semi-rotating hand with thumb and forefinger up: "No can do." One raised finger: "Probably." Palm open: "Probably not." Tapping the center of the forehead: "Do you think I'm stupid?" Extended fingers slowly rubbing the underchin: "I couldn't care less...