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...Conti, the reluctant miracle worker who doesn't believe in miracles. Fortunately Conti, a veteran of many a similar off-the-wall role, proves up to the task. His wry facial expressions, his bedraggled stray-dog appearance and his dry, brittle voice seem appropriate for the exasperated yet ever-jocular...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Miracle Worker | 3/27/1987 | See Source »

...White and Blue even has some of the portentous overtones of Mailer's An American Dream, and like the Champ, Dunne has an acute sense of evil and a highly developed sniffer for the hydrants of power. He is also wickedly funny, if your taste runs to hilarious funerals, jocular murder trials and droll executions: "The warden and I had the prime rib. Yorkshire pudding and strawberry shortcake . . . Last meals. It would make a hell of a cookbook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Generation of Vipers THE RED WHITE AND BLUE | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...should I know," he says in a gruff yet jocular manner. "What do I look like, a head teaching fellow...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: The Disinformation Exam | 3/4/1987 | See Source »

...work, Harvardicus is stopped by a woman asking directions to Allsred. "How should I know," he says. "What do I look like, a head section leader?" and continues along his gruff yet jocular course...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: The Disinformation Exam | 3/4/1987 | See Source »

...lecture, he announces that there will be a mandatory movie for everybody on Sunday at 8 a.m. After class, a student comes up and asks him where the movie will be. "How should I know," he says in a gruff, yet jocular manner. "What do I look like, a head section leader...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: The Disinformation Exam | 3/4/1987 | See Source »

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