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...even keel is projecting faint disgust at everyone and everything in every movie; he even breathes half-sarcastically, jaded beyond belief. Here it's not a world-wise jaded: the landscape of his face is as dissipated as the roads and stations--all blear, stare, and past-drunk. This is the heavy-lidded look of a Robert Mitchum, except that his moves are quicker: he's dead and jaunty at the same time. The adroitness comes from doing everything with ceremony: never has anyone ever used a napkin with more style, only the style is devilish and cynical...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Join the Navy and See the World | 3/7/1974 | See Source »

...HueyCobra gunships, troop-carrying Chinooks and A-6 Intruders making thrusts at the invisible "aggressor" force. The first wave of the attack consisted of reservists from New England, Ohio and New York-most of whom viewed the task mainly as an extra day in the sun. Bedraggled and blear-eyed, they ambled off belching LVTs to the consternation of whitebanded "umpires" who frantically waved yellow flags to simulate a mortar and grenade attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: The Marines Battle for Argos | 8/27/1973 | See Source »

...blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Soul Clap Its Hands and Sing. . . A YEATS SAMPLER | 6/16/1961 | See Source »

...tumultuous crescendo inside my skull. Finally I fled into the unknown morning, vaguely seeking surceace in Sever Hall with Uzbek Studies 229. It was ghastly--so ghastly I cannot talk about it. The obscene rites that there transpired, as registered on my fear-crazed brain by my blear-hazed eyes have completed the utter rout of my resources, made me the shattered hulk you now behold, and driven me back to my couch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Ravell'd Sleave | 10/16/1958 | See Source »

...know a lady with a terrible tongue Blear eyes fallen from blue, All her perfections tarnished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Contribution to Poetry | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

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