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Among the most gratifying occasions Lane can recall is the time when he "squeezed Rothman's jaw just after he had had a tooth pulled," shortly after, he says, Rothman attempted to "chop down the walls of an elderly tenant who was unable to pay her rent...
Mahty fahn, Tahm, to know Jaw-juh's on yoah mahn...
Here and there were a leering face and a defiant bellow, but for the most part the convention was a scene of restrained certitude, the firm jaw-set of people who run things and have things. Ken Baker used to be a teacher, but the vision of affluence and independence beat strong in him, and in 1972 he started his now burgeoning business. The fear that brought him to Kansas City was that the Government, in its ineptitude, would rob him of his chance and his dreams...
...this is precisely the sort of thing that scares moviemakers with a big bud get at stake. All too quickly they are cranking up a drearily conventionalized fiction in which Charlton Heston clenches and unclenches his jaw muscles as he tries to sort out his relationship with his son, who has inconveniently fallen in love with a Japanese-American girl the authorities erroneously believe...
Brando a Buddha? Unlikely. Not the pugnacious, trigger-tempered, tempestuous Marlon Brando who broke a photographer's jaw three years ago, seduced and abandoned nearly as many women as Don Juan, insulted and scorned more than a few of the world's notables. Not long ago, while snorkeling in his lagoon, he punched a marauding whitetip shark in the snout. The shark fled...