Word: deadpan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reader still remain unhorrified? With dry, deadpan irony, Rosebury & Kabat-who know as well as anyone, and better than most, that there are "portentous moral issues involved"-even suggest a design for a convenient-size bottle of death: "Culture preparations of bacteria or viruses . . . might be dispensed, either in liquid suspension or in dry form, in thin-walled glass ampules. . . . To insure the breaking on contact with water, a gas-generating element like those used in fire extinguishers might be included...
...returned from Moscow reciting the story of the Soviet effort to seize the economy of Central Europe, of the Soviet Union's negation of every U.S. effort to make that economy selfsupporting. His references to Stalin's bland remarks about reaching ultimate agreements (TIME, May 5) were deadpan; Marshall himself reflected little optimism...
Created by a solemn, helpless-looking Liverpudlian named Harry Hanan, Louie is a solemn, helpless-looking little man with a bald head, a deadpan, a huge nose resting firmly on a huge mustache. Louie has no fixed profession. Sometimes he is a barber (as was Hanan's father), sometimes a henpecked husband, a wistful bachelor, a timid burglar-but always a meek soul with an inferiority complex about women. Like his happily married creator, Louie suffers from a gnawing desire to snip feathers off women's hats...
Most of this is kidded with all the subtlety of a fire alarm, though Philip Coolidge, as the dyspeptic professor, offers some deft deadpan satire. But Barefoot Boy, like its predecessors, trades mostly on zip, pace, and the sheer commodity value of youth itself. It gets a fair measure of these; but the Abbott trademark is beginning to seem perilously like a rubber stamp. And Barefoot Boy is very much poorer than its predecessors in the matter of music, and not quite so peppy in its dancing...
Divorced. By Gail Patrick, 34, deadpan cinemadventuress and onetime Panther Woman: Arnold Dean White, 34, toy manufacturer; after 2½ years of marriage, one of separation; in Los Angeles...