Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel that they are being lumped into the solid block of the "poor," that they are being preached to, and charitably nursed by the anti-poverty program. (Incidentally, that's why some members believe that President Johnson marked the program with a permanent stain the day he opened his mouth about the "war on poverty...
Italian is one language in which a deaf-mute is not completely lost. Every facial tic, every finger flick, means something. A thumb jabbed at the mouth: "Waiter, bring some wine." A semi-rotating hand with thumb and forefinger up: "No can do." One raised finger: "Probably." Palm open: "Probably not." Tapping the center of the forehead: "Do you think I'm stupid?" Extended fingers slowly rubbing the underchin: "I couldn't care less...
...spare, dryly witty strip that avoids the archness and sentimentality of most comics that deal with children. With the barely perceptible wriggle of a line, he can convey a pathos and tenderness beyond the reach of most of his colleagues. The dots at either end of Charlie's mouth sum up six years of concentrated worry. So subtle is Schulz's drawing that some of his best panels are wordless -as when the Peanuts are gathered to observe somberly the first snowflake of winter...
KEEPS CLOSE MOUTH ON HANSEN...
Charming Croc. Sam, the central figure of the tale, is "a tall, yellow-haired, red-faced man with sparkling, self-satisfied eyes and a kind of religious mouth." Born poor, he has risen to some modest eminence in the U.S. Department of the Interior. Sam the Bold he calls himself, but in fact he is pitifully afraid of life. He hates his wife because she will not be his mother, fears the world because it does not accord him the homage he feels he deserves. To compensate for these afflictions, Sam shamelessly uses his six children. He says he loves...