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Neat as it is, the show would be eminently missable except for one thing: Rooney. Twenty years of anticlimax have strung hard lines across the famous baby face. With his porky jowls and rathskeller neck and jutting nose. Rooney at 38 resembles an enraged pygmy rhino, a pint-pot Wallace Beery. His talent resembles Beery's, too, in its sock-simple vulgarity, its feisty fecundity. He is one of the great hams of the age, and life seems to have smoked him ripe...
Collected Poems, by Robert Graves. The bent-nosed Jove of Majorca has sometimes used prose as a pot in which to boil bestselling historicals (/, Claudius), but poetry is his sacred urn. On it, he engraves the moods and passions of love, childhood, and the classic past...
...They are melt numbers. From one melting pot of gold, each bar (usually 20) receives the same number...
...this in a synthesis of space by its equivalents in line and color is the artist's task.'' He likes to paint a subject many times over, and the practice makes perfect riots of dissonance in which the order of the English garden sometimes goes to pot...
...Maxwell Taylor got the coveted assignment of Superintendent of West Point.* promptly expanded the liberal arts courses and set the cadets to studying the dissenting opinions of Oliver Wendell Holmes and the poems of T. S. Eliot. Taylor posted a sign in the West Point locker room reading, "No pot belly will ever lead the corps of cadets," and became renowned as a give-no-quarter handball player...