Word: lip
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world; Mamie's proud tears as she watched him take the oath; Bob Taft's stony expression as he watched another man assume the job he had sought so long; Harry Truman staring at the floor of the platform and whispering to Mamie; Bess Truman biting her lip...
...Lip Readers. Chief instrument of Perón's rough-'em-&-rule-'em policy is a branch of the police called "Political Order." Headed by ex-Detective Camilo Racana, the branch is now estimated to number some 50,000 plainclothesmen and undercover informants, including a large female contingent and a trained squad of lip readers. One day last week, an architect going home by streetcar noticed a particularly ramshackle bus that had just had a new paint job. Without thinking, he turned to the passenger beside him and asked: "Wonder why they wasted paint on that...
...original, The Clown consists mostly of variations on one situation: a brave little boy keeping a stiff upper lip in the face of his dad's continual boozing and crapshooting. This he accomplishes largely by saying "Aw, gee" and looking forlornly at the camera. As in the original version, the father dies at the fadeout-in this case, after having made good on a television show...
Prejudiced as I am toward fantastic plots and Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer, I will start off by admitting that I liked The Love of Four Colonels. However, it is not a very good play. Despite all the curled-lip suavity of Harrison and the charming frivolity of Lilli Palmer, the characters and the situations in the play are horribly stereotyped. The American, the British, the French and the Russian officers billeted together in a small, neutral German province all act like animated caricatures. And when the door of their quarters bursts open by itself on a windless night...
Learning to double-lip like Kell meant learning the clarinet all over again from scratch; it brought a different set of facial muscles into play, and required a subtly different fingering technique. Benny had his old finger calluses removed by a doctor, and then buckled down, at 40, to relearning his lifework, acquiring a new set of calluses and an even more controlled technique...