Word: cyrano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...though, are too great to leave one's conscience unburdened, particularly when one owes his very existence to some of these stuffed species. Perhaps the zoologists have tried to laugh away any feelings of guilt, with the Proboscis Mankey as the butt of their joke. Like Rostand writing of Cyrano, the placard describes Proboscis as of "large size, bright colors, and grotesque nose . . . curiously elongated and flexible . . . The special use to which he puts it is doubtful...
Whirlpool's one bright spot is Broadway Actor Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac), playing his second movie role. As a glib, impossibly clever rogue, he steals every scene. But it is only petty larceny. Miss Tierney's vacuous look (not a new look) makes it hard to tell when she is hypnotized and when...