Word: mouthes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thebulging eyes and the twisted mouth...
...undergraduate, and by the time he was a graduate student (in mathematics), found he was in demand. He kept pushing his material to see just how bloodthirsty he could get and get away with it. Now he knows, and with a brief taste of Manhattan night life in his mouth, he is ready to give it up. He would rather write ditties for others to sing...
Although he handily mastered the mannerisms of the famous comedian-the giddy, stiff-legged Cantor canter, the twittering hands, the O-mouth and popeyed stare-Brasselle could not find in himself the essential thing that makes Eddie run: the dynamo that sends through his audiences a crackle of sympathetic electricity. As a result, the spectator is always conscious that Brasselle is trying to be like Cantor, and cannot decide which performer to be embarrassed for. Besides which, 116 minutes is too long for any take-off to take...
...Admiral Jesse B. Oldendorf, cruising at the northern end of the strait with the U.S.'s older battleships, learned that a big Japanese force, including two battleships, was headed for the strait from the west to turn the tide in the battle for Leyte. Oldendorf corked up the mouth of the strait with his old battlewagons, sent destroyers up ahead. The Japanese came pouring up through the strait in the darkness, the destroyers raced in to point-blank range, fired their torpedoes and wheeled away, and Oldendorf opened up with his big guns. The small boys sank two enemy...
...just a sitting duck for "The Slasher," a fine comic heavy (Robert Strauss) who gnaws at his lines as if they were ripe black betel nuts. The whole thing is unfortunate for Singer Rosemary Clooney, who is still new to pictures. Almost every time she opens her mouth to sing, Hope shoves...