Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five or six, and when he was 17 he lost his father, a member of the petty nobility. "By nature impressionable and eager," as he remarks in La Commedia, the boy somehow acquired a superb intellectual education. At an early age his appearance was forceful-hook nose, big jaw, protruding lower lip-and his disposition thorny. "He was somewhat presumptuous, disdainful and haughty," according to a contemporary, "and knew not well how to bear himself with common people...
Some $3,000,000 worth of spectators saw--or didn't see, depending on whether or not they were blinking at the time--the Muslim from Louisville peddle backwards and land a lightening "phantom" right to the jaw which sent Charles "Sonny" Liston sprawling to his downfall in what was certainly one of the most bizarre bouts in boxing history...
...public had wearied of yellow journalism, and the comics calmed down. There was less jaw breaking, more jawing, though the humor was still basic. Mutt, originally a horseplayer, was soon joined by Jeff, and the pair still quietly swindle each other today. Abie the Agent, an ethnic comic character, often cracked jokes in Yiddish and was not above haranguing a waiter: "It ain't the principle either; it's the ten cents." In Bringing Up Father, Irish-born Jiggs plans desperate stratagems to escape his starched collar and shrewish wife for the solid comforts of Dinty Moore...
...Batman (someone named Lewis Wilson) fits the funny book picture all the way down to his square jaw. Robin, the Boy Wonder (someone with too much curly hair), looks a bit too effeminate. Linda (Gotham's own Lois Lane) is pretty enough, so we can let our hero admire her with out compromising our conception...
...kitchen is his womb, and the apron string is his umbilical cord. But his real specialty is crying on his own shoulder; he claims more symptoms than there are diseases. Matthau grouses that his fidgety roommate is "the only man in the world with clenched hair." A clenched-jaw finale finds the pair admitting that they are not meant for each other, though each may have learned just enough about himself to mend his broken marriage...