Word: lipless
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...mood of a man who, though not wallowing in a bygone love, constantly glanced backward and lived in its shadow. On Chutes Too Narrow, Mercer projects the image of a changed man from the moment a brash electric guitar breaks in to start “Kissing the Lipless...
...Wallace, a staid, daft suburban bachelor inventor, and his brilliant, long-suffering dog Gromit. Park has now adapted to feature length his obsession with the forlorn wit of caged animals, with the quiet exasperation of rural English life, with complex machinery destined to go wrong--and with bead-eyed, lipless creatures who have more lower teeth (six or eight) than upper (four). These features give his characters a perpetually dazed expression, as if they've been beaten goofy by life's inequities and iniquities. Simply to keep going is an act of heroism...
...good John D. and his evil twin, went partners with each other. The deeply pious Baptist Sunday-school teacher would work the rest of the week as a corporate Borgia--the worst of the "malefactors of great wealth," according to Teddy Roosevelt. In his parallel universe of philanthropy, the lipless, squinty skinflint would dispense hundreds of millions of dollars, which among many other things built the University of Chicago and transformed the entire field of medical education and research. Rockefeller's enemies simplified the puzzle by dismissing him as a hypocrite. Rockefeller, being a man of profound internal consistency...
Moving the heavy equipment to the right places in a hurry was the biggest problem. The next biggest was whiskers. Every dark-bearded man who appeared before the camera without makeup, no matter how clean-shaven, looked hirsute. After the first few telecasts of lined, lipless ladies and black-bristled men, there was a rush for makeup. Governor Dewey did an expert job dabbing the finishing touches on his own pancake base for interviews. In his acceptance speech, without makeup, he looked a little like a baby-faced Lincoln. A Charles of the Ritz cosmetician touched up the wives...
...mission's appropriation. Last week, outside the mission's clinics, stinking, pitiful yaws victims still lined up each morning by the thousands. Some of them crawled miserably on their haunches, because their legs had been eaten away. Some had no faces left, only teeth protruding from lipless, roofless jaws...