Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When I get the ball I don't have to look up to know where Phil is," Papagianis said, "And if I'm going to give him a through pass, I can tell by the way his nose is pointing where...
That is the classic cynicism of the outsider looking in. Gay Talese has had his own flawless Italian nose pressed against the glass window of America ever since he was a boy growing up in the seaside resort city of Ocean City, NJ. As the son of an immigrant Italian tailor, young Gay was actually a minority within a minority. What Catholics there were in town were mostly Irish. The situation undoubtedly sharpened his eye for differences. The most different man in town was his own father. "A supreme individual," recalls Talese, "a man with a mustache in a town...
...when Hitler seemed to most of the world a mildly ominous crank, Armstrong interviewed him at the Berlin Chancellery. He had "nice, wide-open eyes," a large nose and an "insignificant appearance." His forelock flapping over his eye, Hitler delivered a strange monologue about Germany's need to rearm, and then at the door told Armstrong he had enjoyed "our animated talk." Armstrong soon produced a short, foreboding book called Hitler's Reich-The First Phase, warning accurately of what was to come. Later, he visited Mussolini in Rome. Asked to assess his fellow dictator to the north...
...DiCara's appearance was not a slur, but merely an observation that he did not lit the image of the Harvard grandee. I submit that this image does exist, and that it would be a minus factor if DiCara conformed to it. Of my own height, waist-line, nose or hairline, of course, Grillo knows nothing. Lastly, I stand by my observation that racial and ethnic origin, community rootism, and strength of organization are often of coequal importance with political stands in Boston elections--and, indeed, in elections all over the country. If it is Grillo's suggestion that...
...prisons and streets of our country are full of replacements adequate in every respect, from snub-nose revolvers to a pseudopolitical doctrine, to exculpate their licentiousness and shift the blame to where it does not belong...