Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King" Cole; Capitol). A new tune by Johnny Mercer from the forthcoming Broadway show, Top Banana. Both Mercer and Cole slipped on the skin...
Though he is a native New Yorker of Irish ancestry, his dark eyes, swarthy skin and gift for accents have kept him busiest playing Latin types. He has also appeared as an Englishman, an ape, an old woman, a Swede, a Negro, an Indian, a Japanese, a Malayan, a Chinese, a Pole. On Broadway, before he went to Hollywood, he once played a rabbi in the evening while rehearsing in the afternoon as a Greek gangster. On neither stage nor screen has Naish ever played an Irishman...
...named Father Trollope. For three months, he argued his uncertainties almost daily. "Riding on trams in winter past the Gothic hotel, the super-cinema, the sooty newspaper office where one worked at night, passing the single professional prostitute trying to keep the circulation going under the blue and powdered skin, one began slowly, painfully, reluctantly to populate heaven." A few weeks after Greene completed his instruction, he and Vivien were married by Father Trollope...
...frail and lanky, he dresses like a careless Oxford undergraduate, walks with a combination roll and lope that emphasizes a slight hump between his shoulders. Physically, he is an easy man to forget (one old acquaintance remembers him simply as "badly made"), except for the face with its wrinkled skin that looks as if it had shaken loose from the flesh, and the startled, startlingly washed-out blue eyes, slightly bulging. He looks-and the phrase applies to any number of his characters-slightly seedy...
DRUGS AND COSMETICS. Because some fluorochemicals are inert, they do not irritate human tissues, may replace organic compounds which the skin cannot tolerate...