Word: neanderthallic
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According to the script, Captain McConnell (played with rubbery insensitivity by Alan Ladd) was emotionally the sort of cheerful Neanderthal who proposed to his wife at a prizefight, called her "Butch," and treated her like a meddling parent that he continually had to outwit. The wife (played by June Allyson...
At this point, young love, Keystone-cop chases and a burlesque of the Army-McCarthy hearings threaten to run away with Author Toombs's little joke. He pads it out with jabs at bureaucratese ("It's going to take front-office to front-office noodling to get this...
In other places in the Makapan valley traces of many later humans have come to light-from shambling Neanderthal man down to the modern Bantu. The stone tools, says Professor Dart, filled the last gap. Their discovery "may place within our grasp in a single South African valley a continuous...
Streetcar's Stanley Kowalski, as Brando conceived him, was a man to match the blast furnaces and the man-killing mines of an industrial age-"one of those guys who work hard and have lots of flesh with nothing supple about them. They never open their fists, really. They...
Bitter Coffee. Once regarded as a very tough character. Private Eye Philip Marlowe seems a rather mellow and gentlemanly sleuth these days, especially when measured against Mickey Spillane's neo-Neanderthal Mike Hammer. For one thing, the years have been kind to Marlowe. Introduced in 1939 (in The Big...