Word: lip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Throughout most of the picture, the upper lip is held so stiff that one often wishes the characterization behind it had more teeth. But it is a good, workmanlike film, nevertheless, and Actor Kelly attains that rare thing in Hollywood movies about Americans in England: he indicates his Americanism without lapsing into an inane grin...
...ethical superman, a general who is a kind of military Mortimer J. Adler and wants to classify all the world's great ideas, a beautiful but muddled matron who thinks the quickest trip to heaven is on a cultural broomstick. Author Musil perches them all on the lip of a volcano-the years 1913 and early 1914, just before the outbreak of World...
...Germany to locate the factory where Hitler was manufacturing a bacteria bomb. There were squads of brutal and booted Gestapo, a beautiful barmaid (Was she enemy or friend?), a German professor who recoiled from making weapons for mass destruction. Alda had plenty of opportunity to make a stiff upper lip and to say things like "I'm only doing a job that has to be done...
...Laura it is a developing Webb that holds one's interest. Watching him learn to set his sneering lip just so, arch a well-trimmed eye-brow at a studied angle, and tinge his voice with the exact tone of what passes for atrophying scorn, provides an interesting two hours. In the context of a middling good detective story, the early Webb is irrestible...
...lip is the pledge of fellowship...