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Zuzu, a local Airedale, would make a perfect Hollywood glamour girl. She is absolutely indifferent to the public, to say she enjoys sex is an understatement, and her poise is so developed she can pass a fireplug without batting an eyelash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 1, 1951 | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...offhand as a schoolgirl's "Jeepers." The effect of such artlessness on the stage is to make practically anything Barbara does seem credible and convincing. One mark of her real talent lies in the fact that she can be herself and still translate the flick of an eyelash or the sting of a tear across 15 rows of seats into the darkest corner of the theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Rising Star | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...Street's split-second standards, did the tape flash, the first sale-and bring a roar of approval from the floor. The sale: a 25,000-share bloc worth $2,243,750 was sold for 89¾, up 2¼ points from the previous close and within an eyelash of G.M.'s all-time high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twenty Years Agrowing | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...Velikovsky account, Venus was once a monstrous comet. About 1500 B.C., it swept in from space surrounded by a retinue of meteors. On its first pass, it missed the earth by a comet's eyelash, showering the surface with "stones from the sky." Dreadful things happened, of course. The rivers ran red as blood. The oceans slopped around. Mountain ranges rose or fell, and lots of people were killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Venus on the Loose | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret sat in on a murder trial at Old Bailey. Neither batted an eyelash when the prosecutor, speaking in cultured accents, quoted one of the defendants as shouting: "We'll get away if we do in the bastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 21, 1949 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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