Word: nosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egypt, Constantinople, Beirut and other suitably exotic places. The trip was not a success; "As a worshipper of the sun, he was handicapped by an aversion to heat and to southern parts." Something of his prosaic Boston background apparently survived in Crosby despite his flamboyant efforts to thumb his nose at his heritage...
...abridging..." Mohtz, a squat little man, gets excited. "That limitation's not on you, not on me, it's on Congress." He tells me of his campaign for Congress in 1974 when he ran under the slogan: "Get the bureaucrat's hands out of your pocket and nose out of your business." But that part of his life is all over. Now he helps run the United States Taxpayers Union and plans for a tax strike...
...swept back along an unusually neat part; a smooth unflappable brow, something a gambler might try to cultivate (you cannot tell when he's riled or when a political card is up his sleeve by reading this brow); unremarkable eyebrows and ears; something of a potato nose; and the eyes of a predator bird...
...humor quickly vanishes. And to compound this weakness in approach, there is also a racist slant in the camera work, reminiscent of the worst excesses of Birth of a Nation, exemplified by Schroeder's decision to focus on one of the ministers as he absentmindedly picks his nose. If Schroeder's point here is to demonstrate the absoluteness of Amin's power within his government, or the simplicity of his subordinates, or both, he does not succeed in making that point very poignant. On a superficial level, the utter ludicrousness of the scene vitiates any sense of horror...
...born TV star Frank Perdue is not. He is bald, has an ample nose and speaks with a high-pitched, nasal twang. In the Northeast, where Perdue in white lab coat regularly appears in commercials, more than one viewer has noted his resemblance to the chickens he sells. Yet, thanks to some brilliant Madison Avenue copywriting ("It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken," "My chickens eat better than you do") and believably homespun performances by the unlikely actor, Perdue Inc. has become the fastest-growing U.S. chicken producer...