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...racing is evidence that man will bet on anything that moves-be it kangaroos, chimpanzees or jumping frogs. Certainly a dog track is no place to admire the look of a dog: his face is wrapped in a muzzle that looks something like an air-raid warden's mask. But dog racing is an $81 million-a-year business in Florida...
...died in 1532. He may once have studied with Leonardo da Vinci, for though his drawing is less acute than Leonardo's, it has the same sinuous elegance-like a strand of hair afloat on the wind. But unlike Leonardo, he never painted a monster or a mask of rage or caught a tempest in his brush. Luini was limited and narrow, but like a narrow window standing open...
...actually Communist, but the Cocos hold three-fifths of the top executive jobs in all major unions. At the strike-bound port of Marseille, where Red violence exploded last fortnight, U.S. seamen refused to unload U.S. ships. To them Benoît Frachon, who conceals unlimited brutality beneath a mask of affability, telegraphed appreciation of their sympathy with "French workers in their courageous fight against the imperialism of the Marshall Plan...
Kreutzberg's first big success-and his last haircut-came in 1925 when he danced a dramatic part in the ballet Don Morte, based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe. Says Kreutzberg: "I wanted to look very dreary. I tried a mask, then a cap, but that made me look unreal. It was summertime, so I shaved my head. The ballet girls said my make-up looked wonderful, then touched my head and shrieked." His next role was that of a bald Chinese. He has kept his head shaved ever since; when his dances require it, he wears...
...completed the two side panels for the altar. One of them showed a ship built up from a thumb and forefinger keel, with its sail tattered and twisted about half a face. The title: "Resurrection" (see cut). The other panel, "Martyrdom," was even more obscure. It consisted of a mask, a bloody accordion, and some high-heeled shoes in the snow...