Word: jawed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jaw and Strut. The first half of the film is devoted to apple-pie softness and bamboo resilience. In war movies of the '40s, the Japanese were a thin yellow line. Tora! Tora! Tora!* is a refreshing reversal. The Americans tend to blend into an indistinguishable potbellied mob. It is the Orientals who are individuals. Admiral Yamamoto (Soh Yamamura) is Eskimo-like in appearance, stoical in practice, goaded by an affliction no leader can afford: doubt. Lieut. Commander Fuchida (Takahiro Tamura) is an Oriental Smilin' Jack, all jaw and strut. Ambassador Nomura (Shogo Shimada), present in Washington when...
Died. Chester Morris, 69, stage and screen actor, who in 1941 established th,e role of Boston Blackie and in 36 movie sequels over the next nine years played the consummate detective with the square jaw and slicked-back hair for millions of moviegoers; of an overdose of barbiturates in his motel room in New Hope, Pa., where he was starring as Captain Queeg in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial...
...grave risk now facing Gould is getting into reruns before his prime time is used up. In Getting Straight, when his jaw flew open in astonishment and water cascaded down his chin during the Master of Arts oral exam, the bit was both funny and surprising. But when he appeared on-screen in Move just a couple of months later doing the same thing again, it became self-parody. The theme of I Love My Wife concerns the oft-plumbed conflict between professional success and contemporary marriage; Little Murders deals with urban man's inhumanity to urban...
Incredibly, the police, though they knew there were five hostages inside, by most eyewitness accounts opened fire on the truck as it approached the roadblock. They exchanged gunfire with the men in the truck for one mad minute of hell. When it was over, Judge Haley was dead, his jaw and part of his face blown off by a blast from the shotgun taped to him. James McClain, William Christmas and the young intruder lay dead as well. Magee, Deputy District Attorney Thomas and one of the jurors were wounded...
Near by, George Craft, 69, "the spittin'est man you ever did see," and official distance record holder (24 ft. 10.5 in.), points out: "You've got to have good jaw muscles." George polished his skills hitting moving targets like chickens and cats as a farm boy; he chews only Apple Sun Cured. "My mother could hit the fireplace from anywhere in the living room," he recalls. "A spitter's greatest joy lies in hitting the moving target, preferably cats, chickens or snakes. You ought to see a cat run when you spit in his eye." Today...