Word: mouthings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soldier in the Islands. Private Basilone was always laughing. One day his C.O. stopped in front of the ranks and said: "Wipe that smile off your face." But John Basilone could not turn down the corners of his mouth, and he spent a week...
...bright September Sunday of 1943, John Basilone got his welcome home. At the estate of Doris Duke Cromwell, 30,000 assembled to greet Hero John-mayors, judges, ex-Governors and ex-Senators, and a movie star with upswept hairdo, who kissed John Basilone on the mouth. His picture stood in all the shop windows, alongside General MacArthur's. A portrait of John Basilone was hung in Town Hall...
...across grandiose Northwestern landscapes. Horses in motion are always cinegenic, whether or not the motion makes any other sort of sense; and a couple of fights in this picture are dramatic as well as beautiful to watch. Best performance is the Albino's: his intransigent head, scornful mouth and ice-blue eye make him look like a creature of legend...
Before Westbrook Pegler could open his mouth, the White House gave out the news: Franklin Roosevelt had been to Hyde Park and was back on the job. Pegler had said that next time he heard of a blacked-out Presidential trip to Hyde Park, he would defy censorship and report it (TIME, March 5). He just didn't hear of it until he read it in a newspaper. But if Pegler got cheated out of some agreeable notoriety, he did get something which he and many U.S. editors wanted: a slight easing up of an absurd censorship. The White...
...wish. When he discarded humble Sibyl Vane (Angela Lansbury) and she killed herself, the mouth of the portrait warped in cruelty. He locked it away, where only he could see it. As the years passed, and he lost himself in every depth, of vice the screen dare hint at, he watched the portrait's gradual and fantastic corruption.* He saw how blood sprang out on the right hand when at length he committed murder...