Word: grinningly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...busiest weeks since he moved into the White House, he nevertheless found time to play 18 holes of golf at chilly (35°) Burning Tree. He also found time to see the usual list of visiting students and folks from back home. Welcoming citrus men, he listened with a grin while an indignant Texan complained that the Texas grapefruit in a punchbowl the visitors presented to Ike had been buried beneath fruit from Florida, California and Arizona. Said Ike, who obviously realized that there is a limit to what a man can do in one week: "Well...
Emerging from the meeting, Bidault encountered Reynaud. "Is the night going to be long?" asked Reynaud. "It may be long, but in any case it is ours," said Bidault with a sly-fox grin...
...still very much a man like other men-despite his troubles with Francoise.* Erotic, nostalgic, satiric, philosophic and clownish by turns, he shows bafflement, bitterness, faithlessness, a saving sense of humor and an even healthier sense of mystery. He can limn a breast or buttock, an evil grin or a sorrowful eye, with one stroke of his pen, but he never stands on skill alone, and even scorns perfection. A devoted artist, he keeps showing by purposeful slips and elisions that art is a matter of illusion. "What's my line?" he seems to ask. and never waits...
...even reprints cannot save an otherwise bleak issue. Occasional signs of promise do not take the place of humor. D. J. Golden, in describing a phonograph record in the opening article, writes: "Certainly there was little that could provoke even a grin . . ." The comment is all too applicable to the Lampoon...
...upper lip is held so stiff that one often wishes the characterization behind it had more teeth. But it is a good, workmanlike film, nevertheless, and Actor Kelly attains that rare thing in Hollywood movies about Americans in England: he indicates his Americanism without lapsing into an inane grin...