Word: chipmunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since he first loped onstage last fall opposite such formidable opposition as CBS's Playhouse go and ABC's Wire Service, it was clear that Tennessee Ernie was a new kind of Ford in TV's future. Jaws slack and chipmunk eyes watering, his mouth listing to port in a mustachioed half-smile, Ernie could slam into a fair-weather tune with authority, sink back languidly into some corn pone-and-molasses badinage about his pea-pickin' cousins (he claims 150 kinsfolk) or how to make porcupine meat balls. He could turn a muffed line...
...obviously teetering on the brink of a good cry. She barely had time to tell how she had raised her three teen-age boys all by herself when Master of Ceremonies Jack Bailey shoved her over the edge with a deft flick of folksiness. "Why," he chirped with chipmunk cheeriness. "you don't look much over...
...sake of the gopher (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus), then the Senator should at least show mercy for the sake of the chipmunk (Tamais and Eutamius...
Creating spoofs of odd gangster types, the actors turn this bedlam into constant comedy. As chief thief, Guinness wears enormous sweaters, a ten foot scarf, and chipmunk teeth. The stare of a worried, weird master-mind that often adorns his face can merge effortlessly into an upset smile of sudden defeat or a polished smirk of careless confidence. Gliding through perpetual intrigue, Guinness is at his best...
...Bennington, Vt. (winter headquarters: Mill Valley, Calif.). Carrying his 76 years lightly, Professor Overstreet is up at 4 on most mornings, dawdles over breakfast till 5:30 a.m. From then till 1 p.m. he writes in his barn. Afternoons are spent puttering about the garden and feeding a pet chipmunk. Since the nearest neighbor is half a mile away, the professor pretty much limits his interpersonal relations to his wife, with whom he spends the evenings studying a new enthusiasm, the mandolin...