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...shoulders billowed a purple cape and on his chest gleamed a gold cross. He looked taller than his 5 ft. 8 in. He bowed graciously into the wind of applause, smiling a boyish smile. Then he turned his gaunt, discreetly made-up face (Vs base and light tan powder) toward one of the three television cameras on the stage. He said: "Friends, thanks for allowing...
...herself the luxury of red fingernail polish. But Mrs. Roosevelt is still not a woman who cares for frippery-she bought only one dress, an evening gown, this winter in Paris, and then only because she forgot to bring one from New York. She uses no lipstick and no powder, and keeps nothing on her dressing table but a big, black, old-fashioned comb, a hairbrush and a faded picture of F.D.R. as a young...
...pulls the cardboard out of a shirt that has just come back from the laundry. Then he smears it over with a neutral color. After that he holds a brush above it and lets some house paint drip. Finally, he sprinkles the whole affair with gold or silver powder. The result: a series of Jackson Pollock-like abstractions, about as modern as modern can be. Renny's matter-of-fact name for them: "drip paintings...
...that point (beginning in January) Mow and Hsiang began to act like men afraid to test their case before a judge. The court managed to get its hands on only $614,000 of the $7,000,000 or so which Mow presumably still controls. Mow quietly took a powder: on Jan. 23, then on Feb. 8, he failed to appear for deposition. He went to Mexico City instead. Hsiang also absented himself from Washington. Last week, to Attorney Roberts' embarrassment, came news from Hong Kong: Hsiang's family had gone from San Francisco to Shanghai on the Communist...
...turns out was nothing but a practical joke, although of a very poor taste. It seems that the best warning or punishment against that kind of prank should have been the sort of spanking that parents would give to children caught playing with matches near a barrel of gun powder, i.e., a good old spanking, moral if not physical. In the end, that what the boys...