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...World of Don Camilla (1951); of cancer; in Paris. His real name was Fernand Contandin, but he preferred "just one name. Like Napoleon." He won an amateur singing contest in 1928, eleven years later was voted the most popular screen personality in France. His lantern jaw and Grand Canyon grin once prompted Actor Sacha Guitry to inquire with impeccable Gallic politeness: "Has anyone ever told you, monsieur-how odd-that you look like a horse...
...shifty as people think," Cavanagh said as he headed for the locker room after yesterday's practice, flashing his toothless grin. If Harvard is ever going to prove that, it may have to be tonight...
...Sammy, my jaw's stiff," she said. Then: "Sammy, I can hardly talk." Before long her mouth was frozen into a pretty but irremovable grin. My eyes brimming with tears, I decided to tell her the truth...
...insipid grin of degenerate pride in achievement on the face of the Cambodian soldier further illustrates the mindless futility of our involvement in Indochina...
...three novellas comprising The Watcher, all of which predate Cosmicomics, Peter Pan is grounded. This earlier Calvino may not have been quite ready for a tragic mask, but his wink is closer to a tic and his grin is spastic. The title story unwinds like an old Vittorio De Sica film in slow motion. A member of the Communist Party, Amerigo Ormea is assigned to be an election watcher at the Cottolengo Hospital for Incurables in Turin. As Amerigo officiously keeps the morons and vegetable cases from being recorded as Christian Democrat votes, Calvino demonstrates ironically that the Catholic Church...