Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Army, give her a modified Lillian Gish hairdo complete with bangs, and that's Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower." A friend added: "Mamie doesn't change much, but that's the reason for Mamie's charm. Mamie won't be an Eleanor. She isn't a girl who wants publicity. I don't think she's ever made a speech. In a way, she'd just as soon go back to Denver or the general's farm at Gettysburg. Just the same, Mamie will never be stuffy...
...minded cusses were around then"); another was Garibaldi, who gave up so much for his country. "The rock bottom thing about life," the Buzzer would say, "is to keep on going when we don't want to keep on going, and to be willing to give up what isn't necessary...
...into the facts of upper-class life, i.e., mingled boredom, bitchery, fear and arrogance. He did portraits of varying completeness of the men in her life, ranging from a Machiavellian, hunchbacked doctor to a simple Norman peasant whom Lamiel pays 15 francs to teach her the nature of love ("Isn't there anything else?" she cries disappointedly when he has earned...
...game. The old fan now sits in his living room choosing his afternoon entertainment from a channeled selection. If he misses the late fall feeling of dump concrete, cold hot dogs and warm brandy, if he misses the "Peanuts," the "Get your colors," of a bright autumn day, he isn't talking...
...second feature at the Met, Anything Can Happen, is also supposed to be an "A" film. It isn't. Anything Can Happen is a tedious tidbit about how Georgians from Russia can achieve success in America while still clinging tenaciously to the bizarre traditions of the Caucasian mountains. It relies heavily on pidgin English for its humor and Horatio Alger for its plot, and the net result shows that a cliche, even in dialect, is still a cliche...