Word: moppet
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Nevertheless, Sullivan kept quizzing kids, found that they could be coaxed to chuckle first over impish-looking drawings of red ants, a fat man, even a thin pin, later over a frolicsome poodle named Nip and a red-headed moppet named Walter-all illustrating stories with plots that children found engaging. Laboriously trying out frame after frame on children and rejecting those that led either to boredom or too many wrong answers, Sullivan's team completed 21 textbooks-three series of seven, roughly intended for the first three grades...
...John Davis Chandler, an ash-blond menace with a voice like a stripped gear, who seems to have difficulty getting his plum-size eyes open; Zekial Marko (who also wrote both the book and screenplay) an engaging loser who would obviously do anything to anybody; Tammy Locke a fearsome moppet, capable of a look of existential bafflement when her father won't let her dry the dishes-and of cheerful chuckles when Daddy and his friends end up on the dock all covered with blood...
...black-haired moppet draws a picture of a heart on a fence and explains to the little boy: "One side is filled with hate and the other side is filled with love. These are the two forces constantly at war with each other." The boy clutches his chest: "I think I know just what you mean. I can feel them fighting...
Forget about all those other labels-the old song and dance man, the late-late-late-show good guy, Moppet Shirley Temple's straight man. From now on, just call George Murphy "Senator." He has more than earned the right...
...Samuel Taylor's Beekman Place, French Actor Fernand Gravet plays a violin virtuoso with a string of women (Madeleine Carroll, Arlene Francis, Melinda Dillon). Britain's Terence Stamp comes to Broadway as Alfie, a Jack-of-all-trades with Jill troubles. Onetime Moppet Margaret O'Brien will star in One in a Row, about an author who writes a bestseller and decides to quit while he is ahead. Jean Kerr, who has been far ahead since Mary, Mary, has completed Poor Richard, a play about a visiting British poet which was originally due last year...