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...label on the Center by emphasizing the names of Bowie or MacEwen or Hoffman or Bowles or Huntington. All have taken shelter and sustenance from the Center. But if you tried to pin a common label on any two of them, at least one would chew...
...nurse eventually came over and with tremendous efficiency shoved forkfulls of food into her mouth, which she swallowed without bothering to chew. It would have been hard for her to chew because she had no teeth, but anyway lunch was so soft and mushy that it really didn't make much difference. After a while the nurse, with a few razor strokes of the fork, scraped the mashed potatoes off the women's chin and left. She remained frozen with something that might have been a smile, and gravy for a beard. When I looked up again...
...heir apparent, was shocked and disappointed when Knudsen was brought in, and later had several clashes with him. The two men held a peace parley last January, but if they came to an agreement, it did not last. Says one high executive who knows both well: "Lee had chewed his way through ten layers of management to get where he was, and he was determined to chew his way through anyone who was placed above...
...Eugene McCarthy ("I love you so". . .). Some labor through metaphorical complexities. Stalin, for instance, begins botanically, switches to a feline metaphor ("What shot him clawing up the trunk of power?") and finally reaches a fine physiological line, "his intimates dying like the spider-bridegroom?/ The large stomach could only chew success...
...There is a point at which fantasy becomes dangerously close to reality," Robert Drivas intones portentously). But responsibility for the failure of The Illustrated Man must rest with Director Jack Smight. He has committed every possible error of style and taste, including the inexcusable fault of letting Steiger chew up every piece of scenery in sight. Exhuming his Oscar-winning sorghum accent from In the Heat of the Night, he gets more syllables out of a conjunction than most other actors could from Hamlet's second soliloquy. Steiger's performance, which is well below his usual high standard...