Word: objected
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...object to nudity," explained Musicomedienne Carol Charming. But after watching an undraped contingent of Folies-Bergère dolls at the Tropicana Hotel in Las Vegas, Carol asked out of her $100,000-a-year contract with the Tropicana that called for an eight-week appearance this year and next. The nudes were "just wonderful," she insisted. "The trouble is, if I were to work in the same show -as the management wanted-I would just flop. There's no sympathy in the Folies. I can't get laughs until an audience is with...
...Laborite Daily Mirror called it "the most reckless political appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse a consul," and the independent-conservative Spectator, far from disagreeing, called the comparison "apt" and added: "The Earl of Home at his best has shown signs of equine intelligence." The object of all this objurgation is one of unflappable Mac's most steadfast supporters and closest confidants. Called "Gentle Alec" by his friends, tall, tweedy Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, 57, belongs to that diminishing number of landed Britons who go into politics as an inherited duty. His ancestors were border...
...Another Thing. To get a national reform rolling, Nehru urged states and municipalities to supply long-handled brooms to their sweepers, even if the tradition-bound sweepers might in some instances object. Then he went Harriet Bunker one better: besides cleaning India's streets, untouchables must also empty India's privies, carrying away the night soil uncovered in open wheelbarrows or loosely woven baskets or pans borne, coolie-fashion, on the head. Such a practice, said Nehru, is a "disgusting sight. Every sweeper should be given a proper container with...
Numerous colored slides illustrated Messer's point: the object of art is to say things never said before. During his comparison of Boucher's sensuous "Venus" with De Kooning's grotesque figure of "Woman," Messer commented that modern art attempts to tell the truth even if the subject is not pretty...
...Supreme Court Justice. Patterning his antics after France's celebrated Mime Marcel Marceau, young Bill was better than boring, less than soaring. His best act was titled "The Five Thousand Pound Lift," in which he applied a superhuman clean-and-jerk to a gigantic invisible object...