Word: puffs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...light a fresh cigar, flick some ashes off, or just blow smoke into the air--and often takes this time off just before the punch line of a story, a pause that makes the tag all the funnier. And, after the first punch line, Holbrook often takes a second puff or so, followed by another line, inciting a fresh burst of laughter...
Richard Nixon, by Ear! Mazo. A fascinating biography, flattering but far from a campaign puff piece...
Richard Nixon, by Earl Mazo. An expert biography, flattering but far from a campaign puff piece...
...Shoeshine, Umberto D. and The Roof), his participation in this featherweight import may come as something of a surprise. But since the films that earned him a place in cinema history have all been box-office laggards in Italy, De Sica is forced to direct and act in cream-puff romances in order to scrape up the financing for an occasional picture of his choice. In The Maid he almost seems to be describing his own professional plight-and that of the once brilliant Italian film industry-when he haltingly asks a doctor: "Isn't there something to-reinvigorate...
Richard Nixon, by Earl Mazo. An expert biography, flattering but far from a campaign puff-piece...