Word: fawning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best members of the cast were those who managed to give themselves up wholeheartedly to their parts. Libby Franck, as Rosita, was the best of all. She pouted and pirouetted, rolled her eyes like a fawn, and was a totally engaging ingenue. James Mann, as Don Christobita, the pot-bellied troll who buys Rosita's hand, also did a good job as a club-swinging bully. He never failed to get a laugh when he stalked onto the stage, though he lost some of the menace by too much shouting...
...cowboy: trail hand on a cattle drive to Montana. At 15, he pulled a man's weight on the job, running all night with the stampeding herd and even swimming the notorious Yellowstone River (" Tis such a suck to it that to sink is a gone fawn skin") with his bunch of cattle. The work was hard, McCauley recalls, but the company was cheerful. After a rugged day on the trail, there was hot grub and mescal liquor to pleasure a person, and down Mexico way there were bullfights too-though it did "look like a man was getting...
Later, in a political broadcast costarring former Vice-President Richard M. Nixon, Goldwater delivered a free-wheeling attack on liberals who "fawn over social psychologists" while scorning policemen...
Rabbits and raccoons and skunks fled in terror from the hills into city streets. On a distant ridge, a fawn turned and walked dazedly back into the shroud of smoke. In the backyard of her demolished home, a woman wandered nude and vacant-eyed, clutching a harp. Firefighters battled the blaze stubbornly, even dipped into backyard swimming pools with portable pumps for extra water. One hysterical woman seized a fireman's coat, nearly ripped it off his back as she screamed in his ear: "If there is a hell, there is a picture...
Divorced. By Linda Darnell, 40, fawn-eyed brunette who played the brazen heroine of Forever Amber Merle Roy Robertson, 43, her third husband, an American Airlines 707 captain; after six years of marriage, no children; on grounds of cruelty and adultery (she accused him of fathering an illegitimate child by a Yugoslav actress); in Los Angeles...