Word: smile
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately Galassi's direction is not so effective as his script. Too many of the scenes are taken from obvious angles; and in some cases he strains to bring guffaws from incidents worth only a smile. Supplementing Galassi's script is the music of M. Joel Mandelbaum which never hampers, but seldom helps the action on the screen...
...weight from 150 Ibs. to 190 Ibs. His complexion was swarthy, sometimes yellowish, and his face was lightly pitted from a childhood smallpox. His hair was grey and stiff as a badger's, his mustache white. His expression was usually sardonic, his rare smile saturnine. When he laughed loudly he exposed a mouth full of teeth-jagged, yellow teeth-and the sound of his laughter was a controlled, relaxed, hissing chuckle...
...recommendation to the Medical School, half of it devoted to that incident. When Perkins learned that the prankster was one of the first from his class to be admitted, he was not surprised. "I know they are always interested in a fellow with ideas," he says with a smile...
Furry appeared relaxed and confident, and the reporters clustered around him were extremely polite and extremely anxious. They pressed forward with their questions, continually returning to badger him about Communist membership. They asked the same questions in a dozen different ways, but every time they did Furry would smile and say "You sound like the Committee" or "I guess Mr. Velde could use you" and everyone would laugh. You could tell, though, that the reporters didn't think it was very funny...
...when he is tired, the aged President will droop. Whenever Madame Rhee thinks that a visitor has over stayed, she will interrupt with some such remark as "Poppa, do you haff coffee or tea this afternoon?" Hearing her voice, Rhee's thousand-wrinkled face will crease into a smile. In private the President calls Madame Rhee "Momma," and in recent months he has needed all her solicitude...