Word: eyebrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this Celtic barcarolle is vivid and poetically evocative, but it is interrupted by personal references that seem self-indulgent. Her sister is flying to Peking, the author mentions several times without explanation. There is a playwright named Jonah, a son, a marriage, all mentioned with verbal nudges and eyebrow lifting, none comprehensible to the reader or relevant to Killorglin. There are friends in Ireland whose portraits are washed in far too thinly for a book that at times appears to be a memoir in the act of becoming a novel. The last impression the book leaves is of a richly...
...every turn, Road branches into familiar byways. In its world of intrigue, menace is measured by the arched eyebrow and the smiling threat. All arrivals and departures are eyeballed by at least one sinister type, who glances at his watch and swiftly darts into a phone booth. But never mind the photostats. Someone should have rung up James Bond for clues on how to play a goshawful thriller for real laughs...
...every bit as momentous an affair as, say, an affair, the Italians take it all with a grain of saltimbocca. The results, as last week's showings of spring and summer collections proved, may never raise hemlines in Duluth or necklines in Dubuque, but they did raise an eyebrow here and there and clear round the world...
...Pravda cocked an eyebrow recently at the Great Sewing Machine Scandal. A decade ago, the Soviet Union was short on sewing machines, so Marxism's planners pressed the "on" button. Immediately factories began competing to see who could turn out more sewing machines faster. Result: Russian seamstresses are awash in a sea of treadles and bobbins. "We have more than 150,000 machines accumulated here," complained a worker at the Podolsk Sewing Machine Factory, "and still we are making thousands of them every...
...only difference is, we Democrats felt sorry for him and thought it was a case of sickness and disease, and we didn't try to capitalize on a man's misfortune. We never mentioned it." Lyndon's comment sent reporters scrambling for phones, caused many an eyebrow to arch in puzzlement-including Dwight Eisenhower's. Leaving Walter Reed Hospital after treatment for a respiratory ailment that resulted in sinus and ear infections, Ike declared when newsmen questioned him about Johnson's statement: "I can't recall...