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...Baby-Kisser. Periodically, Benevolent Despot Salazar permits Portugal to vote for a rubber-stamp National Assembly or a tame President. The elections are always won by Salazar's National Union Party, and the rules are peculiar: 1) the opposition may campaign for only 30 days, 2) traditionally, the opposition presidential candidates withdraw before election day, 3) anyone who is in opposition must submit to being labeled Communist. 4) Portuguese law firmly prohibits demonstrations of any kind in the streets...
...Goodie" Knight--Republican governor of the State of California--is an honest man. He's a balding, cherubic politician of the old school, a hand-shaker and a baby-kisser to whom politics is a game--not without humor nor immune to the horselaugh...
...this election; it's the votes")-but he has no peer at mixing, on first-name terms, with plain folks. Morse is a distinguished, if pedagogic, orator ("My duty, as I see it, is to translate moral values into legislation")-but he is probably the coldest baby-kisser in U.S. politics. McKay's eyes twinkle with warm humor. Morse's gleam with the zeal of a prophet...
...That Kisser. The fight for parts went on, and in fighting for himself, Bill found himself fighting for others. He was elected a vice president of the Screen Actors' Guild, and slugged it out with the big studios in many a negotiation, with quick wit and a sharp mind that grew more analytical the more it saw of Hollywood. At the same time, Bill came to understand the problems of the big executives, and to wish a little wistfully sometimes that they were his to solve. Force of Arms, Submarine Command, Boots Malone-his face, though it was slowly...
...popular in such musicals as Lady in the Dark and Lost in the Stars. But in this album he is still the unreconstructed composer of gutter nihilisms. In one ditty. Singer Lenya is a bitter, jilted girl who snarls at her indifferent lover: "Take that pipe out of your kisser, you dog!" In the chilling Berlin Requiem she sings the horrifying vision of a drowned girl whose body is decomposing, limb by limb, as "God gradually forgot her, first her face, then her hands and finally her hair." Funniest for U.S. listeners is a moaning ragtime song written...