Word: grins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jammed tightly in fourth. By the time the pit crew, working furiously, had repaired the car, Moss's position was hopeless: he was 17th and last, more than three laps behind the leader, Hill. "What are you going to do?" asked a friend. Said Moss, with a wicked grin: "Have a bloody...
...Jules and Jim see a sculpture, the head of a woman smiling. Sometimes her smile is the omniscient smile of Sophia, sometimes it is the saurian grin of a Lorelei. They fall in love with the smile...
...Eastern philosophers are often rather bad talkers"? Weight of Dandruff. Huxley's hero is William Farnaby, a successful journalist who blunders into Pala by inadvertence and a fortuitous shipwreck. In Huxley's eyes, Farnaby represents a sickness in the soul of modern man. With his "flayed ferocious grin," Farnaby is aware of his own wretchedness and the corruption of the world to which he belongs, and there hovers about him a good deal of the sad seediness of the inhabitants of the early Huxley world of London intellectuals. He is like a man whose shoulders sag under...
...calcified social structure. But after the revolution, what? Viridiana witlessly abandons what is good in her religion along with what is bad, and the final scene suggests that she will become the mistress of Jorge, that Spain will sink into mere materialism. The film ends on Jorge's grin, as thin and nasty as a razor's edge...
...President Kennedy at the White House. Until he got to work, Washington could not be sure whether he was an improvement or not-but there were some encouraging signs. Dobrynin is young, intelligent, and far more relaxed with Americans than Menshikov, whose major trademark was a stiff, frozen grin. For a Soviet diplomatic couple, the Dobrynins have unusual social poise, even dress like Americans. On the art-and athletics-conscious New Frontier, they are likely to contribute more than Menshikov to Washington's social whirl. Both are accomplished skiers (he also plays tennis), and Mrs. Dobrynin plays the piano...